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In direct answer to your scathing remarks in the latest article in the sentinel, especially in regards to #217 Tower of Cubes, I would like to say that I DID end up solving the card on the 3rd try, and WITHOUT CHEATING!!! I take pride in attempting to find the cube, but if you require more 'intellectual' help than 'neurologically misguided' earth people, perhaps you would like to retract your original 'cry for help' to 'find the cube'? Remarks such as the ones your journalistic team placed in the Perplex City Sentinel will NOT, I assure you, gain you further helpers or puzzlers in your request for the cube. I will continue to search for the cube, and will take pride in my accomplishments (I didn't think I could get this far on my own, but I have!), but your article certainly takes the enjoyment out of helping the Perplex City people.

Tame Adams (AKA notverytame75), Earth

Ed. Note: This letter has been chosen as the Sentinel's Star Letter of the Week. The author has accordingly received five points on the Perplexcity.com leaderboard, as will future recipients of the Letter of the Week prize.

It has recently become blah blah that current blah are sufficiently blah blah to concern those of blah who still give a blah about this cube nonsense. When will the blah finally be realized, now that blah is finally sorted out. Really, who could have blah that blah blah could possibly think blah and blah? What's more galling is that there more blah than one would normally find tasteful under blah circumstance and it seems to be coming this way. In closing, blah blah blah blah blah, and I mean it this time!

EvilGenius, Earth

I'm shocked at the bile being heaped upon the hapless solvers in Kate Brewster's recent article. Granted, the guesses cited were spectacularly wrong, but perhaps people wouldn't find such wild guesswork necessary if they could be confident that the answer to any given card would make sense in the end. How many cards have we slaved over, searching for something that makes logical sense when the "correct" answer might as well have been randomly chosen? How many cards have been solved by people who were reduced to randomly guessing after exhausting all logical possibilities? How many cards are listed as solved without anyone being sure why that particular answer is right? The natural response upon discovering the correct solution to a good puzzle is a resounding "Of course!" Far too often, though, the only possible response to a solved card is "What the HELL!?" Why shouldn't you try any random idea that comes into your head when it seems that you're as likely to get a correct answer by guessing as you are to find it through actual puzzle-solving?

I'm sorry that our efforts to help the people of Perplex City are causing such anguish to Kate and her friends. Perhaps she would prefer that we spare her the agony of our foolishness and leave her to find the Cube by herself.

Penh, Earth