Choose and Solve

Choose

Choose verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

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Solve and choose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Solve" instead a verb "Choose".

Nearby Words: choosy, choosing, choosey, chooser

Solve verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.

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Choose and solve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Choose" instead a verb "Solve".

Nearby Words: solution, solved, solving, solvable, solver

Also done for readers who blatantly cheat, like bring more items than they should have (One Night in Payne House and Zapped in Space) or don't attempt to solve the otherwise simple mazes the way they were meant to, and instead only pick and choose the possible page number.

Source: Literature / Give Yourself Goosebumps
It's all in the title, but to recap: would you rather solve your problems with alcohol, Drowning Your Sorrows, or would you choose frontal lobotomy?

Source: Lobotomy
When the authors deliberately choose not to solve the mystery, possibly to avoid this trope, that's Riddle for the Ages.

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