What better use could you have for your shut-at-home hours than this excellent and addictive hobby?
Lewis Carroll invented this maddeningly amusing pastime. The Gerts have different approaches to it: one is rigorously logical and the other prefers to invent narratives about what the characters are likely to do. No prizes for guessing who the true addict is.
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Gives me nightmares about my second round of the Law School Admission Test. I aced the first LSAT in 1980. By the time I took it again in 1987 or so, they had added logic questions. I did very respectably, after a lot of studying, but the logic questions haunted my dreams after that.
I can imagine certain members of your family who might take to them like a duck to water.
I can too. Must be Jim’s influence.
Whatever floats your boat. And there are oh so many worse addictions. Not that I’d know anything about that.
At least it’s a cheap one. You can even get them free online, but the stories are not so inventive as these ones.
I can never work out the solution to a problem that sounds to me something like this,’ The Postmistress has three sons Alf is 6 years years older than Jim and Jim is half as old as Percy, one rides a bicycle, the one who has red hair has roller skates and the fattest boy helps his mother in the Post Office, which one has false teeth?’
Other Gert
Other Gert — Amen.
Calisthenics for the brain – very enjoyable.
My friends who do similar puzzles entirely agree with the calisthenics approach, and relish them –
I’ll have to check this one out. I’ve been doing a lot of Sudokos.
Leslie
These are much more fun. There’s an online site called Puzzle Baron.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out..
I’m sorry, all I can hear is Kyle’s song ‘Physical’ but with the word ‘logical’ substituted. I give whichever Gert would like it this earworm for free.
Have you heard the YouTube song The Liar Tweets Tonight? That’s an earworm for you if you want one.
Thanks, I’ll save it till the morning, I hope to sleep tonight… 🦁
Puzzles of various descriptions seem to be proving popular during the lockdown. My Twitter timeline is full of people doing 1000-piece jigsaws!
True here too, JacquiWine. Some of them have very entertaining things to say about what happened when they caught the dog eating pieces that had fallen on the floor.
The Aus Prime Minister when giving an example of essential shopping said his wife had been out to buy jigsaw puzzles.
Love it — in his household, that might be the case. But what happened to ordering things online? Not fast enough?
There’s been such a huge surge in online ordering that the Post Office is battling to get things delivered- long delays (including to the birthday present for Gert 2).
Boo Hoo I am still waiting for my birthday present. Hope it’s not one of those logic puzzle books
Other Gert
Many jigsaw puzzles are sold out and are on backorder here.
Last year I gave a friend who said she liked jigsaws a 4000 piece one for her birthday She wasn’t a bit grateful.
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