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A puzzle will more often than not have one right way to do it, unlike real engineering problems which are made of trade-offs, and that one way is unintuitive, o
by rubinelli 7y ago
A puzzle will more often than not have one right way to do it, unlike real engineering problems which are made of trade-offs, and that one way is unintuitive, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a puzzle at all.
- dmos62 7y agoA puzzle is just a packaged problem. I think it's hard to argue that certain puzzles are more prevalent than others. This weekend we were doing these puzzles where you have to align unique pieces into a specified shape. It's basically a bruteforce search. The creativity is expressed in how you reduce the search-space and how you memorize the alignments you've already tried. There's definitely more than one way to do it.
- Retric 7y agoEven when there is only one solution there is generally a vast array of possible approaches to solving it. A Rubik's Cube for example does not care about the intermediate states.