The catch is that this is a shitty game. Whoever made it didn't care enough to make sure it was winnable. Or perhaps they were crafting it to be unwinnable on purpose. The catch is that there is no catch. It's not a clever puzzle that you've failed to solve, and in order to understand that you have to be confident enough in your intelligence that you know better than whoever made the game.
It's not a difficult puzzle. Just about anyone could solve it. The trick is that you have to have enough confidence that you understand the rules you're playing by, no matter how stupid and unfair they seem, that you can choose the correct answer without second guessing yourself. Nobody would lose that game because they couldn't find the correct answer. They'd lose it because they found it, decided they didn't like it, and spent that turn uselessly trying to find a better one.
I didn't make some kind of meaningful sacrifice. I'd be happy with the situation, if I did. It'd seem like a fair trade. I chose the only correct answer to a stupid question, just the same as the both of you did, and I'm still furious that I was asked the stupid question in the first place.
And I don't know if I would have been brave enough to make the choice, had the correct answer been someone else. I don't know if I would have believed in my perception of the situation enough. I want to believe that I would have, but maybe I would just have been another idiot who loses the game by looking for a perfect solution.
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It's not a difficult puzzle. Just about anyone could solve it. The trick is that you have to have enough confidence that you understand the rules you're playing by, no matter how stupid and unfair they seem, that you can choose the correct answer without second guessing yourself. Nobody would lose that game because they couldn't find the correct answer. They'd lose it because they found it, decided they didn't like it, and spent that turn uselessly trying to find a better one.
I didn't make some kind of meaningful sacrifice. I'd be happy with the situation, if I did. It'd seem like a fair trade. I chose the only correct answer to a stupid question, just the same as the both of you did, and I'm still furious that I was asked the stupid question in the first place.
And I don't know if I would have been brave enough to make the choice, had the correct answer been someone else. I don't know if I would have believed in my perception of the situation enough. I want to believe that I would have, but maybe I would just have been another idiot who loses the game by looking for a perfect solution.