The phrase "amusing to try" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an activity or experience that is entertaining or enjoyable to attempt.
Example: "The new game is quite challenging, but it's also amusing to try and figure out the best strategies."
Alternatives: "fun to attempt" or "entertaining to try".
You can't analyse the artist through the things they make, although it is often amusing to try.
Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
The incongruities just about make sense and once you have got the joke, it is amusing to try to date the elements of the photographs without the crib sheet of the captions.
Would it not have been more amusing to try something cheeky and youthful that could not be found at a Newport Ball — even, say, a little black satin ribbon with one of those weird plastic cameos that Prada introduced this season?
As it happened, Katonah was the home of the Hickrill Chemical Research Foundation, an outpost of Yale's chemistry department, and Finch found his way into the foundation's labs when he was 16. "I had a summer job washing lab glassware that put me in contact with a lot of really smart people, who found it amusing to try to answer questions from a kid who hadn't had high school chemistry".
It can be amusing to try figuring out what the composer was thinking when he or she wrote the opera.
But the chemistry between Abdul and Cowell was what made those early seasons so amusing, Simon trying manfully to try and keep the show's semblance of seriousness going while, for example, Abdul growled at him or stepping in before Abdul makes things a little too X-rated for a family show.
Des also told me to be brave occasionally with closing lines, and not to be afraid to try to be amusing.
In one amusing interlude, Levine and Usher teamed up to try (unsuccessfully) to undercut Shelton's pitch and steer talent to Shakira; Shelton called them "Siskel and Ebert".
Because I found this amusing, I was then asked if I would like to try to run the drill myself.
But you have to "do" something whether you're the host or the guest, either be amusing or try to be amusing, and doing nothing just doesn't jibe with goals and intentions.
