Puzzles on the floor, crossword stumpers in our newspapers, board games, television game shows-all give evidence that something in us wants to figure things out.

铺在地上的拼图、报章上深奥的填字游戏、纸版游戏、电视问答节目——在在都显示我们心中有一种解答疑难的倾向。

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"It would be very easy to write six stumpers for every round, but I try and order them, " Mr. Kesner says.

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The first vocabulary test had some words anyone would know, such as "tranquil, " but the second one included stumpers such as "anacoluthon" (definition: a syntactical inconsistency within a sentence).

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