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My take on it is that puzzles and games are doing things by hand, and the point of programming in general is to do things once and for all and save humanity the trouble of doing things by hand.

Not that there's anything wrong with doing whatever you enjoy doing by hand.

Or perhaps it's that if we apply our ingenuity to a computer program, we have something and the rest of humanity can have it as well. If we apply our ingenuity to a puzzle, we don't have anything in the end.

Here I start wondering why different people react differently to gamification, but I don't know. I did see earlier where people were going on about getting stars from github...