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.
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__ __ A __ __ A E R __ __ I L E WORD TRAIL 9 Find the 6 words listed in the grid starting with the circled letter. The last letter of one word forms the first letter of the next word. Note that words can also go diagonally as well as horizontally backward or forwards, or vertically upwards or downwards. THREE LETTERS 9 How many words can you think of that contain the three given letters in this order? They do not need to be together in the word, can occur anywhere, but need to be in this
acceptable answers. Example: I LIKE TO LOOK AT PRETTY FLOWERS WORKING IT OUT 7 Words have four letters with the structure: consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant SYLLABLE WORDS 7 DAFFODIL DILIGENT GENTLEMEN MENDICANT POETRY 7 There are many acceptable answers. Example: I used to go cycling in Spain, But didn’t much like all the rain. So I put up my hood, And that felt real good, So I think that I’ll go back again. MISSING LETTERS 7 SET 1: C,H SET 2: B,L WORD TRAIL 7 THREE LETTERS 7
be ITEm; bITE, InnovaTE, sIsTEr, and so on. Aim to avoid proper nouns. You have two options here. You can spend one minute on each set of three letters, or you can choose one set of letters and spend five minutes on it. STR OUS REE EAN ACK LETTER SWAP 2 Three letters in each phrase have been swapped. Can you work out which three you can swap back to make another sentence. For example in the sentence CORY WOULD TALK, the letters C, W and T can be swapped to form TORY COULD WALK. HE WOVE YOUR
LETTER BOXES 3 Take one letter from each box to form a 4-letter word. Topic: Food CLUES 3 Solve the clues then find the letters, which are placed randomly in the grid. Cross them off, circle them, or color in the square as you find them. CLUES 1. Begin (5) 2. Cheery and bright (5) 3. Loose (5) 4. Reduce the length (7) 5. Feeling of support (8) WORD PLUS WORD 3 Add a 3-letter word to the initial letter so that it also makes a 4-letter word, for example A + HEM. Make each of the 3-letter
the five words. Note that different words rhyme in different accents, so choose words that rhyme in your accent. Decide if you want to include proper nouns or not. You can include rhyming words with different spellings, for example REED and READ. KING GREEN HAY CHECK ALL HALF WORDS 4 Join two half words together to form six lots of 6-letter words. 1. __________________________________________ 2. __________________________________________ 3. __________________________________________ 4.
