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USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book 2: 400 Brain Games for Every Day

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Author: USA Today

Bigger is definitely better in the case of the second oversized puzzle book from the world's top newspaper. The USA TODAY Jumbo Puzzle Book 2 is a collection of brain games including 400 puzzles that will amuse and entertain.

Logic, crossword, Sudoku, Word Roundup, and Hidato will keep fans busy for hours and hours. This hefty tome features twice the number of puzzles than most books and for just a few dollars more. Sharpen your pencils and get ready for challenging fun!

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399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young.

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Author: Nancy Linde
Brand: Workman Publishing

Based on the science that shows that people middle-aged or older who solve word games and brainteasers have a significant cognitive advantage over those who do not, 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges is the illustrated game book specifically created to cross-train the brain. Here are 399 games to stretch, challenge, and push the reader, all of which stimulate the formation of neurons—literally, regrowing the brain.

Plus they’re not only good for you, but just plain good—these games are fun. 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia is a lively mix of challenges, riddles, and brainteasers—all vetted by a neuroscientist who specializes in aging brains and designed to work the six key areas of cognitive function that are vulnerable in normal aging: long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed. The games are arranged from easiest to most difficult and are labeled according to which cognitive functions they exercise so they can be mixed and matched into a custom “workout.” In just 15 minutes a day, anyone can improve his brain’s strength, flexibility, and long-term health.

Features:

Softcover; 424 pgs.
399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Questions.
Arranged from easiest to most difficult.
Labeled according to which cognitive functions they exercise.
A lively mix of challenges, riddles and brainteasers.

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My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

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Author: Martin Gardner
Brand: Dover Publications

The noted expert and longtime author of Scientific American's Mathematical Games column selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles. Enthusiasts can challenge their skills with such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Complete solutions included.

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Brain Games #1: Lower Your Brain Age in Minutes a Day (Brain Games (Numbered))

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This is the first book in the popular Brain Games: Lower Your Brain Age in Minutes a Day series, which was developed to help people increase their memory, sharpen their reasoning, and expand their creative thinking. Working the puzzles in this book can provide a vigorous mental workout for virtually everyone from teenagers to senior citizens.

* Check out the Table of Contents
* Work these Sample Puzzles

The book is divided into five sections of puzzles, each progressively more difficult. Self-assessment questionnaires help you gauge your progress, and solutions to all the puzzles are provided in the final section of the book. Like physical exercise, mental exercise needs to be varied for optimal results, and Brain Games #1 challenges you with puzzles of every type:

* Anagrams
* Crosswords
* Cryptograms
* Drawing Exercises
* Language Puzzles
* Logic Puzzles
* Math Puzzles
* Mazes
* Memory
* Observation and Perspective Puzzles
* Sequencing
* Visual Logic Puzzles
* Word Searches

Brain Games: Lower Your Brain Age in Minutes a Day was developed in consultation with Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist who created the Cognitive Enhancement Program, a fitness center for the brain. Mr. Goldberg is the author of The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older.

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The Total Brain Workout

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Author: Marcel Danesi

Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger?

In The Total Brain Workout you'll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.

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Challenging Logic Puzzles (Mensa®)

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Author: Barry R Clarke

So, you think you've got the brain-power to tackle tough logic puzzles? Well, try this extraordinary assortment of challenges, including Mix-and-Match logic puzzles and "Find the Liar" type puzzles. Some puzzles have tables that can be used to deduce relationships between people or items, some use word-play to present the problem, and still others use illustrations to highlight the challenge. Whatever their form, each is designed to stretch your mind to the max. And the level of difficulty increases as you move through the book, concluding with a series so diabolical, even the most expert puzzle sleuths may have to beg for mercy! Fortunately, solutions for every puzzle are included, along with explanations of how the answers are determined, so you'll even be able to build your puzzle-solving skills.

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Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles

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Author: Puzzle Baron

The brain is a wonderful thing to tease.

Two hundred grid-based logic puzzles from Puzzle Baron, the mega-popular online puzzle site! For each puzzle, readers are given a background story and a list of clues and then left with only pure logic to arrive at the correct answer. Unlike other logic puzzle books, every puzzle includes statistics-such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people to complete the puzzle-to bring out the competitor in each puzzler and better inform them on how easy or difficult each puzzle is.

•Features 200 grid-based logic puzzles

•Includes puzzles statistics for added excitement

•Ideal for kids and adults

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Entertain Your Brain: More than 850 Puzzles!

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Author: Terry Stickels

If thereâs a kind of puzzle not included in this incredibly varied collection, we canât imagine what it is. There are math problems, lateral-thinking conundrums, brain teasers, whodunits, IQ tests, trivia quizzesas well as an assortment of baffling optical illusions and amazing stunts using paper, scissors, and other items found around the house. Itâs nonstop fun, but every one of these challenges will enhance real-life problem-solving skills. If you wrote down all the numbers from 1 to 100, how many times would you write the number 3? How old do you have to be to become a U.S. Senator? What 11-letter word is pronounced incorrectly by more than 99% of Ivy League graduates? (Answers: 20, 30, incorrectly.â)

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The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science

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Author: Ivan Moscovich

About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago.” Inside The Big Book of Brain Games, you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions—originals as well as must-do classics—it’s like salted peanuts for the brain. With jampacked pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is a call to action. (And it’s guaranteed to make you smarter.) Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back cross-reference the puzzles. (You’ll find the answers back there, too.)

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The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions

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Author: Al Seckel
Brand: Sterling Publishing Co, Inc.

Prepare to be amazed! Inside the covers of this incredible, colorful collection are hundreds of the world’s most powerful optical illusions. They’re beautiful to behold, and stunning in their trickery. Some of the mind-boggling images seem to spring into action, vibrating, pulsing, and spinning like a hula hoop. Other ambiguous illusions feature two subjects in one: the fun is in finding them both in the single pictureincluding a mouse playing hide and seek in a cat’s face and a strange desert mirage where palm trees imperceptibly morph into camels. And still more, like The Impossible Terrace,” which couldn’t exist off the page: just try to figure out if you’re viewing the space from above or below. Every one is astonishing.

Features:

Optical illusions to boggle your mind!
Softcover; 368 pgs.

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