: Re: Should I write about how the character solved some riddle or let the reader solve it himself "Reaching an end to his path, Eric found a locked door, the lock was a combination of 4 numbers,

I think you need to be fair. A puzzle with no solution offered to the reader seems like cheating to me.

My current novel has some encrypted text. I show the full text to the reader. The protagonist tries and fails to decipher it. This gives the reader the opportunity to try for himself if he wants to, or just continue reading if he doesn't want to.

Later the protagonist figures out how to decipher the text. This is briefly explained in the text, but the whole process isn't shown - just the finished result. Again, the reader could decode the message by himself if he wants to.

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