Wizard Puzzles

Lotsa people ask “why do wizards love puzzles”? And then usually someone will say something like “Well wizards is smart, see, so they like to play smart games” and they're wrong.

Take it from a fella that's cracked a few wizzard riddles in his time. Opened a few seals, unlocked a few magic boxes and whatnot. It 'aint got nothing to do with liking games, or wanting to prove how smart they is. Nah... it's something else entirely.

See I've met lots of folks who was smarter than a wizard. You wanna stump a wizard? Ask 'em which season is best to till. Ask 'em which knife is for skinnin' and which is for carving. Ask 'em how to set a bone. They don't know jack about the stuff that's really important. Mind you if you need someone to make you a candle that's not really there, hey, they're your peoples.

The real kicker is that if you take a puzzle a wizard has did, and you give it to a family for long enough, one of 'em will figure it out. Wizard or no. So it 'aint about being smart, and it 'aint even about being Wizard Smart neither.

No, they love puzzles because it gives them something to think about that 'aint Wizard stuff. It's not trying to trick reality into being sideways, it's not about playing with physics until physics don't work right no more. And most of all, it means they're not thinking about what they gave up to make fancy fireworks with their fingers.

Thinkin' about a puzzle means they's 'aint thinking about their sacrifices.