Accidentally clicking the Conundrumland questions used to be a "gotcha" for me but now I have learned to be more careful as I am reading the question. You will find that all Conundrumland questions will be labeled as such it just is not so easy to see at first. I think you might get used to it as I have and maybe grow to even enjoy some of the Conundrumland questions as I have too.
The zip code as mentioned above is a legal issue in the United States but a user can be from anywhere and any 5 digits will do .. 90210, 00000 etc.
For a Mahalo user, conundrum is basically just Mahalo. It's run by Mahalo. You can log in with your Mahalo account.
They ask for your ZIP because Conundrum is actually a wine company, and legally, you have to be of legal age to consume alcohol to access the site, so they look at the laws where you live and make sure your of appropriate age. It will say in the "about" line if it is a conundrumland question, so you can either avoid them or answer them the same as any other question.
I too was confused at first. But I enjoy some of the questions. They seem to be more thought provoking, whereas the Mahalo questions seem to be more fact based that experience and personal opinion based.It's like a tree branch.
It may look different from the trunk, but the bark is the same. ( Corny I know, sorry, it's late in New England).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.