What's your favorite part about making and/or solving puzzles. What's the bit you'd say you click with most.
i am, regrettably, a diehard aesthete. i derive my greatest pleasures as a constructor from fulfilling precise aesthetic themes. i do my best to incorporate strong, fun logical foundations, but in truth i suspect my creative ethos treats “being a good puzzle” as secondary to “being a beautiful puzzle”, for all the disadvantages that entails. i suppose this is my way of touching perfection; amid all my flaws, i am not above such notions.
what’s funny is that this hardly reflects the puzzles that have had the largest impact on me as a solver. puzzles w/ powerful logical themes, ones that invest everything in expressing and exploring strong, singular ideas. it’s about communication, ultimately: what is a puzzle saying. what do i hear.