Lately, I have been in the mood for puzzles. Helping me scratch that itch has been a book called . When you unbox it, you find a novel called Ship of Theseus by V. M. Straka, a character who we learn either disappeared or died under mysterious circumstances.
But the real story here is in the marginalia, where two readers who have taken the book out of a library try to solve the mystery. Involving flyers, postcards and a decoder ring, it takes a little practice to learn how to read this story, but it is wonderfully immersive.
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Another puzzle I have been loving is the video game (pictured above). At first, it seems simple: you navigate as a blob through a pixel-art world. But once the game is “done”, there are more secrets to figure out, including some that require collaboration among players in the real world in an online forum. Weeks later, I haven’t finished this one either, but I am delighted there are still puzzles to solve.
