The fun that tastes as good as it tastes when you figure something out

There's a taste of that fun you get when you're doing puzzles - solving them, completing them, breaking them back into pieces, putting them back together again, putting them away - a complex, varied, many-textured taste.

The computer has proven to be a highly nurturing environment for the flowering of experiences that taste like that. Puzzles built on puzzles, fantasy, logic, art, music all put together to serve us that particular kind of puzzle-solving fun, over and over again.

neutral provides a good demonstration of the state of that particular delicious art of puzzle-solving, for those who can taste the fun of it.

from Metafilter

by way of Bernie DeKoven, funsmith