Questions & Answers

• This page is compiled out of questions I kept getting in the mail recently. Some of them are in fact the ones my friends have been asking me for years.
• This entire site is about puzzles - what they are and how they are made. And only this page is about - WHY I keep creating them regardless of the profit.
• You can ask your question right here - it will be answered

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  Q: Why do you make puzzles ?
  VG: Normal life is not enough.
  
  Q: What is normal life?
  VG: Normal life is: going to work and back, having vacations, buying and consuming products, watching others performing actions.
  
  Q: Why puzzles?
  VG: Puzzles have a unique combination of necessary features.
  
  Q: What are the necessary features?
  VG: First: uselessness.
  Second: beauty.
  Third: They are an art.
  Fourth: They are a science.
  Fifth: They are real, tangible, mechanical objects.
  
  Q: Why is uselessness good?
  VG: Because puzzles have no practical application.
  They are valuable, self-contained objects on their own.
  
  Q: Why not try to make something useful out of puzzles?
  VG: Puzzles stay meaningful as long as they are useless. As soon as
  one uses a puzzle for a practical application it loses it’s sense.
  People play different toys all their lives and barely get to touch
  anything really serious. Puzzles give them that opportunity.
  
  Q: What do you mean by toys?
  VG: Pants and houses, cars and computers, boats and furniture, the
  list is lengthy.
  
  Q: So, all the things normal people consider serious, you call toys,
  and such obvious playthings as puzzles you consider serious?
  VG: That’s right.
  
  Q: How come?
  VG: Because all so-called serious things are in fact methods.
  A house is a mean of dwelling, a car is a mean of transportation, and
  so on.
  Puzzles ,on the other hand, are self-meaningful.
  When you hold a good puzzle in your hand you in fact touch the very
  inner soul of the Universe.
  
  Q: What do you like most about yourself?
  VG: I am capable of creating new meaningful objects. It’s not my
  achievement, it’s my luck, I was born with it. And I am very grateful to the Lord for that.
  
  Q: What do you dislike most about yourself?
  VG: When I talk about puzzles I get too dramatic sometimes.