7 Really Complicated Things You Do Without Thinking

2. Solve Crossword Puzzles

Sunday mornings wouldn't be Sunday mornings without a cup of tea, a raging hangover, and a crossword puzzle. Whether or not you can pootle your way through a few clues, or you're the master of the cryptic crossword, you might be pleased to know that you're doing better than a supercomputer. In the 1990s, crossword master Will Shortz, threw down the gauntlet to digikind the world over by saying that a computer will never be better than a human at solving crosswords. Whilst "never" is probably a bit of a stretch, he has so far yet to be proved wrong. The thing is with crosswords, particularly cryptic ones, is that they require a lot of creativity and flexibility to figure them out. Computers (for the time being) are good with rules and regiment, but not the free and easy, hippy-dippy creativity that spews out of the human brain so readily. Interestingly, the opposite is true of sudoku. A sudoku puzzle is basically solving a series of algorithms, something that a computer can do with its diodes tied behind its back, but unless you're some kind of savant, it will be a real slog for a human.
 
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