i’ve been using my murdle books i got for xmas as an excuse to have an hour of no screens before bed, but, at the rate i’m doing them (10-15 puzzles per night, with 200 puzzles total between the two books, i’m up to 51 in book one after less than a week) this probably isnt gonna last the month. hopefully the harder murdles slow me down enough, i’ve gotten to the point where the types of puzzles i have to do take me 5-10 minutes on the murdle website and on average, even with the easy puzzles, it takes me about twice as long to do them in the book as it does on the site so i’ll be lucky if i get 6 or 7 of these harder puzzles in each night now. i think im gonna have to figure out how to port PDFs to my mom’s old kindle and see if it has robust enough highlighting/note-making features for me to read nonfiction on it
also i wasn’t expecting TOO much plot but there is SOME plot, and some of that plot is “the main detective has a crush on his esoteric inspector partner and somehow keeps winding up on date-like experiences with him and then eventually after a Tragedy realizes that they could have been…. something more……..”. and lets just say i wasn’t expecting this book to be this explicitly gay which is always a plus in my books (punintended)
update on this: i did uhhhhh. 9? of them last night. fucked up a couple of them even with hints. by the last 3 or 4 i did, i had a raging exertion headache even though i was more consistently getting stuff correct — i just was getting it right by making leaps of logic i didn’t fully understand but just “felt” right.
murdle volume 1 spoilers below:
the last mystery i did was one where logico’s1 book publisher wanted him to publish another book based on avenging his “friend” irratino’s2 death, logico said that irratino was “more than just a friend”, and his publisher replied “it’ll get more sales if he’s Just A Friend”. i cant believe i witnessed a homophobic microaggression in this puzzle book, dude really got told “go back in the closet” by his employer lmfao
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detective logico, the protagonist who solves the murder mysteries, known for his, well, logical arguments
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inspector irratino, who in-fiction is the president of the inspector’s insitute which is known for their eclectic, not-empircally-supported methods of solving mysteries. as a game device he’s the guy who gives you hints if you get stuck on a puzzle, which now that he’s “dead” mostly come in the form of logico thinking “oh my beloved irratino, what would he do, i miss him so etc etc”.
