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The best 'aha' moments are compressed tutorials: after solving one clever mechanism, the player usually understands an entire family of future problems. The history behind the category adds another layer: Logic puzzles often become easier when the player marks what cannot be true, because eliminating possibilities can be more powerful than guessing what is true. The undo button knows more about your confidence than any personality test.

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Mastermind was created by Mordecai Meirowitz and released commercially in 1970. The code-breaking game reduces deduction to colored pegs, but a good guess is really a tiny experiment designed to eliminate possibilities. The next fact takes a different route: 2048 was created by Gabriele Cirulli in 2014 as a small browser project and spread extremely quickly online. The rules fit into a sentence, yet the board has a nasty habit of filling one move before everything finally comes together.