I am attracted to these puzzles that ask you to find something out of pattern. In the first one it is find the 21, and the second one find the reverse 3. What kind of puzzles are these? You might think you just go look up a list of puzzles and find the name in the list.
It is too long a list in Wikipedia to be repeated here. HERE is the link.
Puzzles have been around since ancient times. The first one that Wikipedia documents is the Chinese nine linked-rings puzzle from 475 BCE. riddles were known in Greek mythology.
And what about this Wikipedia entry - the list of puzzles that cannot be solved. It is HERE.
This makes me think there isi also a large number of unanswerable problems and questions. Here's the answer to these:
"They are sets of questions that should not be thought about, and which the Buddha refused to answer, since this distracts from practice, and hinders the attainment of liberation. Various sets can be found within the Pali and Sanskrit texts, with four, and ten (Pali texts) or fourteen (Sanskrit texts) unanswerable questions,"
Isn't that the nature of puzzles - compelling and demanding.
I found this picture that I took quite a while go in my Lightroom database yesterday. I don't quite remember the where and what of the original thing with this graffiti - likely a floor or wall.
