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A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.

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  1. Raph Koster

    Game designer and theorist

    Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.

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    ↗Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badraphkoster.com

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