I'm big into puzzle games. Played most of the Myst games plus every other difficult puzzle game I can get my hands on. I do logic puzzles in my free time and cryptic crosswords / cryptic puzzles when I can get my hands on them. I've heard there's a lot of really interesting mystery books that are structured as puzzles for the reader to solve, but I'm getting lots of mixed info on books that are actually genuinely fun to solve. Apparently "Cain's Jawbone" is the most difficult to solve but that's just because it has multiple orders of magnitude permutations of page orders, which doesn't seem super engaging to me.
There's also stuff like Masquerade and The Secret, but those feel a little bit too absurd, and The Secret is so difficult it still hasn't been solved to this day.
I've heard about a lot of the mainstream ones like House of Leaves or MAZE but I'm especially curious about more niche books you've read that maybe people haven't heard of.
by 1000LiveEels