Almost any puzzle worth its name has a linchpin type of “catch”… that doesn’t look anything worth exploring.
It looks innocuous, unimportant, just like anything and everything else.
Whether it is physical puzzle or a mental puzzle, it has one catch…
In my growth I have faced and solved many puzzles.
The solution didn’t befall me like magic.
I wasn’t shown the solution to any of those.
I had to solve them, piecemeal, one by one.
The only things that got me through are
curiosity
the ability to detach
enough misery for an army