Tuesday 12 April 2016

Solutions!

I've decided to reveal the answers to my puzzles. I've always felt that by revealing the answer you deprive something from the readers, even if you are only presenting the option of readin the solution. But lately I've come to realize that this is not a reasonable way to go about it.
First of all, I have to prove that there is in fact a solution. Maybe you should take my word for it. Maybe you should just assume I'm trolling you. Or maybe, and this might be the most likely of all, I have made a mistake or expressed myself poorly, and you should be given an opportunity to make your objections.
Second of all, I have to present the option of checking if the answer you have come up with is correct. I try to make it so that you know what the correct answer is when you see it, but if you have taken the time to solve my puzzle you should be granted the satisfaction to know that you are right; and sometimes the answer you thought was so clear to you might not be as clever as it seemed. I'd hate to allow any such derailed conclusions run rampant in the world.
Finally, the solutions of my problems are in fact kind of neat, and even if it's important that you come up with it by yourself, I still want the people who visit my blog to see both the problem and the solution.

So I've added a page where my puzzles and their solutions can be accessed. As I write more solutions they will be added to this page; as will any new puzzles.