Talks Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles

http://www.ted.com At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations that inspired some of his best.

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[defect530]

agreed the pennandteller one blew my mind & im a big fan of penn :D

[Phyrexious]

These TED video's are becomming a little too casual with not enough content if you ask me.

This video in particular seemed more like simple self-promotion.

It didn't 'wow' me anywhere. Not a single bit of data that's interesting enough to be worth sharing.

[crudhousefull]

Pretty awesome stuff. I bet it wasn't easy to come up with all that given any time frame...I know I couldn't. Really appreciate this guy getting into it

[Zareste]

let's get rid of the people spreading this propaganda

[fauxman]

Dr. House could rock this shit

[m4lvolio]

I'm fairly certain that bejeweled is not healthy for the brain.

[TheFallibleFiend]

Have admired Kim's work for over two decades - since I first saw samples of his work in an early OMNI magazine. GEB featured some of his work, too, IIRC. Just wiki'd him - never realized he studied under one of The Masters (Knuth).

[PistoltheGreat]

Anyone know what website or software he is using at 5:50?

[AlexMoensChannel]

haha, I thought TED wasn't supposed to have people advertise/sell their own stuff during talks?

Anyway, I too have been an addict for the mental work out games recently. I'm currently mostly focusing on the game IQ Boost on my iTouch, which is the Dual-n-Back game for those familiar with it... Pretty killer.

[sushirogue]

I have always had an interest in puzzles and problem-solving, so really enjoyed this talk, thanks for sharing.

[TonyBtheEG]

Thank you for sharing.

[luckystrke]

not impressed by the railroad "re-invention"....