There are a lot of puzzles that become orders of magnitudes easier if you know that they have a unique solution. Or for that matter, merely by knowing that there is a solution at all makes many puzzles much easier.
I know many puzzle solvers (puzzle purists?) think that unique solutions should be mandatory, which I haven't really put much thought into "yay or nay", but when you include non-recreational (or they could be recreational I guess) puzzles in the mix, you don't always have that luxury. I'm thinking odd math puzzles, but any problem could be considered, I guess.
On the other note, you're mouseover of "discourage" is getting cut off on my instance of Firefox. I'm not likely to "View->Page Source" to figure out what you were trying to say.
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There are a lot of puzzles that become orders of magnitudes easier if you know that they have a unique solution. Or for that matter, merely by knowing that there is a solution at all makes many puzzles much easier.
I know many puzzle solvers (puzzle purists?) think that unique solutions should be mandatory, which I haven't really put much thought into "yay or nay", but when you include non-recreational (or they could be recreational I guess) puzzles in the mix, you don't always have that luxury. I'm thinking odd math puzzles, but any problem could be considered, I guess.
On the other note, you're mouseover of "discourage" is getting cut off on my instance of Firefox. I'm not likely to "View->Page Source" to figure out what you were trying to say.