365 Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Mind Sharp (Brain Workout)
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 1634503554
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Taking care of your brain is just as beneficial as taking care of the rest of your body—research has shown that training games help improve memory, concentration, problem-solving skills, processing speed, creativity, and reasoning. 365 Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Mind Sharp provides a year’s worth of challenging mental activities to keep your brain sharp and flexible.
Chamberlain’s fresh new installment uses the same format as The Five-Minute Brain Workout: a variety of games and puzzles, each with ten examples that increase in difficulty as you work through the book. This collection includes some fan favorites along with many new and exciting puzzles that will further develop your skills.
365 Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Mind Sharp is perfect for lovers of word and language games and puzzles, providing enough short, sharp exercises for a year’s worth of fun and brain stretching.
educational settings such as schools; as icebreakers and energizers in training sessions, and in therapy settings. Level 1 ROWS AND COLUMNS 1 Fill in the column with a word that makes the rows into complete words. There are no proper nouns used. There may be more than one answer. CONCENTRATION 1 SEQUENCE 1 Which of these sequences is the same as: M K N L R N D N N L R B M H C 1. M K N L R D N N N L R B M H C 2. M K N L R N N D N L R B M H C 3. M K N L R N D N L N R B M H C 4. M K N L R
after FORTY? 5. Which two numbers come between TWO and THREE? WORD CREATION 6 Taking any two letters from a 4-letter word, use them within a new 4-letter word. Do not use the remaining two letters. For example the word after HEAT may be TAPS but not TAPE. Don’t repeat words and avoid using proper nouns. Within 5 minutes can you create at least 45 words? VOLVOGRAMS 6 Volvograms are words that spell another word when read backwards, for example BIN and NIB. Work out each pair of volvograms
GANG PARAGRAPH GALL GAP PALM PAN LAND LLAMA PAGAN GLAD MAY PANG LAG HAPPY PRAY RANG HARP MALL PLAY PARRY HANGAR PALL PLAN HAND PANDA WORD IN WORD 4 WORD RHYME 4 There are many acceptable answers. Example: KING: BRING CLING DING ICING LING MING PING RING SING SLING STING THING OWING VOTING WING WRING ZING GREEN: BEAN BEEN DEAN E-ZINE JEAN KEEN LEAN MAGAZINE MEAN PREEN QUEEN SCENE SEEN SHEEN TEEN UNSEEN WEAN ZINE HAY: BAY BRAY CLAY DAY DELAY DREY FAY FRAY GAY JAY KAY LAY MAY NEIGH PAY
Bonus puzzles Answers Introduction Hello and welcome to the second in the series of the Five Minute Brain Workout, a brain training book based on word games and puzzles. Taking care of your brain can be equally as useful as taking care of your body. By simply using five minutes at a time to stimulate and challenge your brain on a regular basis, it can help keep your mind sharp and flexible. Doing short, varied mental activities and challenging your brain with new tasks can help improve your
MAINE and IDAHO? WORD CREATION 3 Taking the last letter of a 3-letter word, use it as the first letter of a new 3-letter word. For example the word after HAT may be TAR. Don’t repeat words and avoid using proper nouns. Within 5 minutes can you create at least 70 words? VOLVOGRAMS 3 Volvograms are words that spell another word when read backwards, for example BIN and NIB. Work out each pair of volvograms from the clues given, and then slot them into the crossword grid. TRIANGLES 3 Each