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 鈥渄one鈥�, 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鈥檛 finished this one either, but I am delighted there are still puzzles to solve.
