Question: did anything ever go wrong while trying to solve a new puzzle

Jessamyn Fairfield answered on 19 Nov 2013:

Oh all the time! The thing about scientific experiments is, if you knew what was going to happen, it wouldn’t be an experiment! So lots of times the outcome is a surprise, and often that surprise is not what I wanted to see. 🙂 But that’s natural, and actually one of the things I like about science is that it teaches you to be relaxed when something does go wrong, because that’s how we learn new things.