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A good puzzle can feel impossible and then obvious within one second; the board did not change, only the player's model of it did. The design side has its own twist: Spatial puzzles often exploit mental rotation, asking the player to imagine an object from a viewpoint the screen is not currently showing. The brain's favorite puzzle feature is apparently the exact moment it gets to say 'oh.'

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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. A second surprise: Real Escape Game events began in Japan in 2007 and helped turn the videogame idea of escaping a locked room into a physical group activity. Suddenly the suspicious drawer and hidden key were no longer just pixels.