LOST Mind Games

Recently, I received a book called LOST Mind Games courtesy of Anne Dawson Books. Appropriately, it arrived shortly after the airing of episode 7 (Ji Yeon) - a classic LOST mind game of a show.   You might think that it's a book about the way that writers Damon, Carlton and team like to mess with our minds - but no! It's a book of mind boggling puzzles related to LOST!   I've always enjoyed puzzles. One of my more interesting classes in college had a textbook filled with nothing but problems to be solved. Many LOST fans may have a tendency to be drawn to puzzles. There are a huge number of LOST related message boards with fans puzzling over every aspect of LOST.   The puzzles in LOST Mind Games really do require a knowledge of LOST. Many of the puzzles are labeled Average Fan, Expert Fan or Diehard Fan and require a knowledge of quotes (like funny things that Desmond said to Locke in the hatch) , episode titles and other odd LOST related facts. I was once at a party of real diehard LOST fans and when I stepped out of the elevator onto the mezzanine floor (where the party was located) I said to a fellow LOST fan: “I go up the elevator; I go down the elevator.” To the non-LOST fan, this means nothing; but to the diehard fan, it's pretty funny.   This book belongs in the library of every obsessed LOST fan. Don't forget to take it on your next long trip and if your name is Seth Norris, you should remember to engage the autopilot before puzzling over LOST Mind Games. JACK: ...Do you ever think that maybe they put you down here to push a button every 100 minutes just to see if you would? That all of this -- the computer, the button -- it's just a mind game ... an experiment? DESMOND: Every single day....