Therbsman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:50 am
Hey just out of curiosity, the star rating for puzzles is for perceived difficulty? fun factor?
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The KAS Scale
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:56 am
by Bob cruise director
As we solve (or don't solve) these puzzles, we go through a range of emotions. Kas DeCarvalho created this scale to capture our levels of emotions - repeated verbatim
1. The Metas that yield the A-Ha Moment too early...and I'm irritable about it, because I'm a dork;
2. The Metas that I torture myself over, then the a-ha moment is basically a head-slapping "Oh DUH!! You Eeeediott!!" Those make me laugh, self-deprecation is no problem;
3. The Metas I gut through, *eventually* figure out...and then walk around the rest of the weekend like I just solved The Middle East or learned Sanskrit;
4. The Metas I DON'T get...but *should* have. (It happens. I don't want to talk about it.)
5. The Metas I don't get, and after the answer is revealed I think, "Yeah...that wasn't going to happen." (Those mostly make me want to put out a Mob hit on certain genius MUGgles here...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Lol!)