Letter #146: Squid Game 2
Good morning, Erin. I’m sure you’ll recall from my Connection letter that my little sister will sometimes give me a murder-mystery-in-a-box for Christmas, and this year was no exception. So, like a good brother with a week off, I decided to tackle one of them—from three years ago that I never got around to. Naturally, being the world’s greatest detective, I identified the murderer right away…but, because of how the game is structured, I couldn’t technically solve the case until I’d done the legwork to unravel all the riddles and puzzles and hidden codes that provided me all the context I’d need to logically deduce who it was. Which took about 10 hours to complete. Which sounds like a lot, I realize—because it absolutely is a lot. But, in my defense, there was A LOT of reading to do, and I’m a very, very slow reader. And I’d accidentally worked at resolving a couple of the big puzzles (and, separately, deducing some of the big character reveals) too early, which I didn’t re...