Pretty Puzzles: Logic

Pretty Puzzles: Logic

Author: Welbeck Publishing Group

Publisher: Pretty Puzzles

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781787399136

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Who said puzzles have to be plain? Who says that you have to choose between style and substance? Who said you can't have both? Pretty Puzzles is a visually stunning new collection of puzzles, brainteasers and mental challenges. Inside its simply gorgeous covers, you'll find all manner of riddles and problems to give your mind a great workout. Perfect for the puzzler-on-the-go or to unwind, Pretty Puzzles: Logic contains over 100 logic puzzles for all difficulty levels. This is the must-have accessory for everyone who cares about looking, thinking and being fabulous. Give your brain the workout it deserves, and look amazing while doing it.


How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

Author: Richard Restak

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 028564176X

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Regular mental exercises, including crosswords, Sudoku, and even brain training computer games, can help to improve memory, fine motor skills, perception and cognition. Solving different types of mental exercises helps the brain to reshape and strengthen itself, as well as heightening imagination and creativity skills. Anyone who wants to improve their memory, logic or perception skills can turn to the individual exercises (by Scott Kim who creates puzzles for magazines including Scientific America) featured in How Puzzles Improve Your Brain, that will stimulate the area of the brain that controls those skills. Richard Restak outlines how the brain processes individual functions, while Scott Kim has created puzzles that stimulate and challenge the area of the brain responsible for that function, giving your brain an engaging work-out. Drawing on decades of scientific research, this book can change your brain as you read it. If you want to enhance your brain performance regular mental exercises, including crosswords and Sudoku (even brain training computer games), can help to improve memory, fine motor skills, logic and visual observation. Solving different types of mental exercises helps the brain to improve itself, as well as heightening imagination and creativity skills. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of witty and, often, perplexing puzzles, How Puzzles Improve Your Brain can create a healthier brain while explaining how the puzzles are changing it. In How Puzzles Improve Your Brain Scott Kim, a puzzle master, has designed puzzles that can target, and improve, specific areas of the brain while Richard Restak, a leading neuroscientist, describes the science behind how they reshape and strengthen the brain. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of witty and often perplexing exercises, this mind-boggling book is designed to enhance specific brain functions and can aid anyone who wants to improve their memory, logic, or perception skills.


Visual Thinking Puzzles

Visual Thinking Puzzles

Author: Michael A. Dispezio

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780806999753

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Can you imagine the mirror image of a given object, or the best way to connect a series of geometrical shapes? These tricky puzzlers will test your ability to do these things and more . . . and help you develop valuable mental skills. All the answers appear in the back.


Advanced Brain Training

Advanced Brain Training

Author: Simon Wootton

Publisher: Teach Yourself

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1444136585

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The Genius Program s much more than a set of diverting and engaging puzzles - it will enable you to out-think and outperform everyone you know, either at work, at home, or on the pitch. It combines despatches from the front-line of neuroscience, revealing the link between your brain chemistry and things such as Risk, Innovation and Strategic Thinking. and giving your practical exercises so you can immediately see the benefits. The second part of the book features hundreds of challenging, Mensa-level puzzles, sudoku grids, crosswords and lateral and logical thinking problems, allowing you to develop the mental agility to put the lessons from the first part of the book into practice. Peppered with tips, techniques, cutting-edge research and fun puzzles, this is more challenging, fun and original than any other brain training book on the market.


The Playful Brain

The Playful Brain

Author: Richard M. Restak

Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781594487774

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You're building up your memory. You're thinking shaper. You're creating a healthier brain This is your brain on puzzles. It's no secret that puzzles-crossword puzzles, logic puzzles, word puzzles-challenge and entertain us. But exciting new research suggests that they've become more than just a fun pastime. Solving different kinds of puzzles can actually help your brain improve itself and-perhaps just as important-ward off mental deterioration. In The Playful Brain, science happily combines with recreation as leading neuroscientist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., and noted puzzle master Scott Kim team up to create a fascinating exploration of how puzzles can change, reshape, and strengthen our brains. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of puzzles, The Painful Braininvestigates the science behind three key areas of brain development- memory, perception, and cognition. And it gives readers the chance to work the puzzles while learning how they're improving their brain. The result is both a lively book of popular science and an engaging set of exercises for developing a wide array of thinking and memory skills. PRAISE FOR RICHARD RESTAK AND SCOTT KIM ' Restak is one of the world's most important scientific thinkers.' - Scientific American 'Dr. Restak is an accomplished science writer with a gift for making complex scientific subjects accessible.' - The New York Times 'Scott Kim is the Escher of the alphabet.' - Isaac Asimov


My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

Author: Martin Gardner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0486320324

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The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.


Your Creative Brain

Your Creative Brain

Author: Shelley Carson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1118396545

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Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson?s provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home, work and play. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states. Explains seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity Your Creative Brain, called by critics a ?new classic? in the field of creativity, offers inspiring suggestions that can be applied in both one?s personal and professional life.