I came to say exactly the same thing. A puzzle is a puzzlemaster saying "try to find the exit in this maze I devised!". But I'd rather build my own mazes that

I came to say exactly the same thing. A puzzle is a puzzlemaster saying "try to find the exit in this maze I devised!". But I'd rather build my own mazes that I'm more interested in, and then try to find the exits for my mazes. If people find other people's problems interesting, then good for them. Mostly I find that my curiosity creates the most interesting puzzles, perfectly suited to what I'm interested in. In other words, implicit in liking puzzles is the assumption that you care for what the puzzlemaster cares for. I find that double coincidence to be rare (for instance, Gardner's puzzles as discussed today here are mostly uninteresting to me).