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The late Japanese puzzlemaker Maki Kaji expresses [the process of solving a puzzle] in beautifully succinct and poetic way:
? → !
Bafflement, wrestling, solution! That is the arc of puzzling— as well as much of art and life itself. (Side note: Has there ever been more brilliantly designed punctuation than the question mark turns and mystery. The exclamation point—so assertive and aggressive and final!)