The Problem Printer.

“Last week I was with one of my summer interns in the lobby when a receptionist complained that her printer wasn’t working. The intern horsed around with it and discovered a pen stuck inside the printer… So he grabs a piece of paper and starts scrawling on it…” See image: “Whitespace in Document Design: Why…

Why do we love puzzles? Professor fills in the blanks

“He steadily brings us through the history, citing the magic squares of China, the first puzzle magazines in the 18th century, the 19th-century American crazes (when pros began to make a living at it), and the 200 million Rubik’s Cubes sold in the 1980s. Enigmas, charades, riddles, anagrams, cryptograms, rebuses, duck-rabbit images, mathematical brain-crushers, Chinese…