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A hint is most useful when it changes the player's question rather than simply supplying the next action. The category's past supplies the companion fact. Physics puzzles hide their rules in motion: gravity, friction and momentum become the clue sheet even when the game never writes them down. The brain's favorite puzzle feature is apparently the exact moment it gets to say 'oh.'

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Kakuro was long known in English-language puzzle magazines as Cross Sums before its Japanese name became internationally popular. It looks like a crossword, but every clue is really a small arithmetic constraint. And for something completely different: Cryptic crosswords developed their modern style during the early twentieth century. A single clue can contain both a definition and a second word puzzle, which means the sentence is effectively trying to distract you from itself.