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Saw this one recently. It looked like a real party.You can buy all-white puzzles online.Not much of a payoff though, is it?There are also a few wickedly challenging puzzles from the writing world.This is from Ankh Morpork (by author Terry Pratchett).The world record was 40,320 pieces:It was completed by Edneia Silviera. It took her 137 days.Technically there was one piece missing, which will probably torment her for the rest of her life.She’s spent countless hours trying to find it. But that’s her burden to carry.Puzzles are already my hell. Doing a puzzle that big would be worse. Ya’ll have fun with that.

I know, right? It’s such a puzzle! Who do you believe: Cohen, who says Trump told him to pay hush money to a porn star; or Trump, who says he paid hush money to a porn star? It’s a total “he and he both said” situation.Trump Admits To Authorizing Stormy Daniels Payoff, Denies Sexual EncounterTrump Acknowledges Financial 'Liability' For Stormy Daniels PaymentShocking Reversal: President Trump Admits Stormy Daniels Payout After Rudy Giuliani RevealSo when on the one hand you have Michael Cohen saying that Trump directed him to pay Daniels, and on the other hand you have Trump saying he directed Cohen to pay Daniels, who can you believe? It’s a mystery!

Let's play! Just you and me and the game is -​And you are already in. Stop reading if you want to quit now.Here are the rules -1. Its a two player game - the Author (Me) and the Reader (that's you!)2. This is how we score -Author: (GREEN player)A : The Author writes an answer : 3 pointsB : Answer open to comments : +4 pointsC : Author doesn't bother to read comments : -2 pointsD : Author responds to comments - +3 pointsReader: (BLUE player)A : Reads this answer but has nothing to comment : 3 pointsB : Reads this answer and shares something in comments : +4 pointsC : Reader comments, but the comment gets no response : -2 pointsD : Author improves the answer based on Reader's comment -: +3 points​You and I are said to be in Nash Equilibrium in case (D, D).How do we get there?In competitive games like this one when person's gain is equal to another person's loss.As the Author, I know your payoffs (points you can score) and hence my strategy is- To write an answer open to commentsThis strategy is based on the assumption that the reader might comment something to get points. That in turn can help me improve my answer and thus increase my score.If my assumption about my opponent is right, the Reader's move will be- To share something in comments.Now comes the interesting part. Author has two choices- Improve my answer based on reader's comment- Not bother to read commentHere again, since my previous assumption was correct I think I get the Reader's strategy and hence I take the effort to read the comment, respond to it and improve my answer based on it if required.This way both of us earn points and the game is at (D, D). *High five*The Reader gets my strategy and adds another suggestion in a comment.- Shares another suggestion comments.Author decides to change strategy.- Doesn't bother to read commentNow the game is at (C, C).And as you can see, a change of strategy at this point has not benefited any of the players.​Thus, at this point in the game ((D, D)) we are in Nash Equilibrium. This is the optimal output of this game. It benefits us all!Although we had same scores at (A, A) too, as the first diagram explains, a change of strategy at this point benefited either player ( cases (A, B) and (B, A) ).Informally stating -- a set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium if no player can do better by unilaterally changing their strategy.John Nash mathematically proved that there exists at least one such equilibrium point in any such game.In this case, I have already made my move, its your turn!And hey, well played so far! :D