ABSTRACT
The Puzzle of Puzzles There is much debate about whether puzzles are “really games.” Certainly, puzzles are often part of games, but does that mean they are games? In a sense, puzzles are just “fun problems.” If you go back and review Chapter 4, you will nd that, surprisingly, “fun problem” meets the many qualications that we listed for the denition of a game. So, maybe each puzzle is really a kind of game?
