Quotes About Puzzle

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.

Search is an unsolved problem.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

a Greek epigram about Diophantus states that "his boyhood lasted 1 /6th of his life; his beard grew after 1/12th more; he married after 1 /7th more, and his son was born five years later; the son lived to half his father's age, and the father died four years after his son." How old was Diophantus when he died?7

You must use your head when figuring out this challenge, and that is the best part.

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

J'ai eu l'impression qu'ils étaient comme les pièces d'un puzzle, vos romans, il suffisait d'assembler et ça formait une image compréhensible.

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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse.

We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a verb-less sentence.

We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a been less sentence.

Then again, the story does involve a missing person, and it could well be me. Or you, or practically anybody. As he said to me once, who's not missing?

There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Don't go on multiplying the mysteries,' Unwin said. 'They should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe's purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill's locked room.' 'Or made complex,' replied Dunraven. 'Bear in mind the universe.