I love puzzle games. I just spent hours watching a youtuber solve creative sudokus. Crosswords, word scrambles, logic puzzles. They're all great. My brain resonates when I take something disorderly and give it order.

Puzzles are great because there's an objective solution. The next step is much easier to find in sudokus than in the puzzles of life like where to live or what to do for work. Puzzles are a sort of delusion, as are novels, in that they provide structure, rules, and logic in a manner that's usually absent from life, which is random and chaotic.

One of my favorite puzzle games is The Witness. It takes a simple concept, drawing a line between start and end spots, and iterates on it endlessly with all kinds of creative implementations of rules: hidden rules, combinations of rules, rules involving the environment.

The aha! moments elevate the experience of solving a puzzle. The more ahas!, the better. Aha! moments also elevate comedy. Subversion of expectations is humorous. Maybe there's something to this. I just read a post that discusses how stretches of life with exciting moments - aha! moments, if you will - are more salient than routine stretches.

So I'm realizing as I write that aha! moments are beneficial in a variety of contexts. Puzzles, comedy, and life experiences at the very least. Surely there are others. My brain resonates as I consider this. Good to know.