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by loansindi 1412 days ago
The biggest benefit, in my opinion, of doing puzzles is building pattern recognition. If that obvious dumb guess is consistent for the structure presented in the difficult-but-guessable puzzle, then I think there's still value to doing it.
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It's not; that's the point.

Level 1000 puzzle: obvious pattern move is correct, no surprise.

Level 1400: obvious pattern move is correct, but you have to check a potential threat unless you are guessing.

Level 1800: obvious pattern move is incorrect, need to notice the threat and findnthr better move.