Puzzle

Puzzle is a word that describes a conundrum that vexes anyone in any form, whether it is physical or mental and when we hear the word “Jigsaw”, we immediately understand- it maybe a hybrid of both. Jigsaw puzzles are a past-time for great thinkers who use their time in slowly figuring out where each piece fits in the whole picture and determining that with one piece found- may start a chain reaction to locating the rest. In real life, we often depend on this trait when using clues to figure out a whole situation from a fragment, this is why people should indulge in trying out jigsaw puzzles when they can.

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There are a lot of different puzzle types that you can enjoy solving. Different puzzle types may help you in different cognitive areas like vocabulary. If you want to improve your arithmetic skills, then a math puzzle would surely do the trick. There are different number puzzles like the famous Sudoku that can help you in getting your math skills sharp. Just like exercising your body to build muscles and get stronger, you can exercise your brain to crunch numbers better and be smarter with a number puzzle. So if you are looking for a fun way to improve your brain, try doing a math puzzle.

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A great way to train the mind to catch small minuscule details in various situations is to train it using fun games that can hone the skill slowly and surely much like a sword slowly forming it’s shape at a forge- with each strike of the hammer, the blade becomes a blade, similarly with each new game, the mind becomes sharper. Word-find puzzles are very unique as they are words hidden among jumbled letters that have to be found and encircled to show where they are hidden- the game takes patience and often more than not, patterns that are obvious as the mind progresses to formulate strategies to find the words.

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People often carry newspapers with them when they would sit at places of soothing ambiance and calm such as cafes for the very purpose of solving the word puzzles put our newspapers every day. The skill to solve a crossword relies on the stock knowledge of an individual based on various categories and genres of knowledge that could range from anything like the type of animal to the measurement of scientific data. Crossword puzzles have been a past-time for many people young and old who wished to gauge their intelligence and what they know as they attempt to fill in the empty spaces with viable answers, hopefully interlinking all the words into the correct sequence and form.

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The world has long evolved in terms of technology and progress of our daily lives that ease and security is much safer than it was back then in the times of the sword and shield. Our security systems were more based on elaborate puzzles that needed a specific way of disarming a trap that could prove fatal and dangerous in both attempting to unlock or arm for trespassers. The risk of daring to break into well guarded vaults or even crypts of kings in the old days could result in a number of ways from suffering painful traps that could maim, dismember or crush the intruder or in the worst case, cause death.

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Chess is an ancient game that dates back to ancient Egypt and was best known as the “game of kings”, where one strategizes how best to corner their opponents key piece without directly confronting it but rather trapping in spaces it cannot occupy due to the fact they are marked by other pieces. The power of this logic puzzle is the ability to create great strategists from merely understanding the mechanics of the game and playing each step thought out carefully into at least five moves ahead to ensure security of your own “king” piece and manipulation of your opponent’s side of the board. Learning chess will be more than an advantage for it will make a person become a great thinker and creator of solutions to problems.

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People often try to muscle their way out of sticky situations to prove they can bulldoze whatever obstacle lies in the way, however, it usually ends up even more tangled and messed up than it was before the attempted “brutal solution”. A great way to solve problems is to first understand what they are about and how they came to be, the origin of a problem can best solve hard puzzles that can exhaust the mental capacities of most people. A good way of doing this is to eliminate the idea that it is a problem- by treating it as a cause of a greater movement and slowly back track to find where the complications had started and work from there.

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Parents who wish to stabilize the learning curve of their children should start weaning them at an early age in games that require memorization, analysis, comprehension and above all- fun. The idea is simple, if we create a proper learning environment that does not scare a child into education but rather open their minds to wanting to learn more about things, then it is possible to spike up their ability to learn through trial and error. Puzzles often have age ranges written on the box to help parents choose which type of puzzle is best suited for their child depending on their age.

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Many take the word puzzle game for granted. There are a lot of word puzzle books being sold and others are even free with an issue of a newspaper or a magazine but they go unnoticed. What many don’t know is that a word puzzle can really help you in enriching your vocabulary. Not only that, it helps you in spelling as well. It’s the perfect exercise for you to strengthen your vocabulary and spelling skills. Even if you don’t get every word right, You will know the definitions of new terms when you check the answer key for the correct answers.