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A classic puzzle conundrum goes like this: You’re in a room with two ropes and a box of matches. Each rope takes exactly an hour to burn all the way across, but it might burn faster through some ...

Solving puzzles that involve eliminating all options except the correct one shows how an important form of logical thinking unfolds in a nutshell, called the process of elimination.