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

by Nancy Linde

Author	: Nancy Linde
Publisher	: Workman Publishing
Total Pages	: 425
Release	: 2012-09-25
Genre	: Games & Activities
ISBN	: 0761168257

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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.

417 More Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young

by Nancy Linde

Author	: Nancy Linde
Publisher	: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages	: 1036
Release	: 2022-07-15
Genre	: Games & Activities
ISBN	: 1523516828

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It’s never too late to improve your brain. Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness can be surprisingly fun—and to your brain, it’s healthy exercise. In this follow-up volume to her bestselling 399 Games, Puzzle & Trivia Challenges Designed to Keep Your Brain Young, Nancy Linde offers a brand-new collection of puzzles, trivia challenges, brainteasers, and word games that are not only great fun to do but are specifically designed to give your brain the kind of workout that stimulates neurogenesis, the process that allows the brain to grow new cells. Cross-train your brain by targeting 6 key cognitive functions: Long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed. This is the kind of exercise you’ll want to do, and all it takes is 10 to 15 minutes a day for a full workout.

299 On-the-Go Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young

by Nancy Linde

Author	: Nancy Linde
Publisher	: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages	: 350
Release	: 2021-09-07
Genre	: Games & Activities
ISBN	: 1523516801

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Give your brain a healthy workout—Anytime, Anywhere. Not just any book of games, this collection by the bestselling author of 399 Games, Puzzles & TriviaChallenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Youngis expertly created to keep your brain in tip-top shape—even while you’re on the go. With its shorter puzzles and portable size, it’s perfect for getting your cognitive exercise in while waiting at the dentist’s office, traveling, or whenever you have a few spare minutes to challenge yourself. Arranged in difficulty from “Easy Does It!” to “Finish Strong!,” these 299 surprisingly fun puzzles target six key cognitive functions: Long-term memory Working memory Executive functioning Attention to detail Multitasking Processing speed

Funny Cryptograms

by Shawn Kennedy

Author	: Shawn Kennedy
Publisher	: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages	: 100
Release	: 2003
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 9781402701399

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More than 400 brain-jogging puzzles give you a crash course in cryptography, while the messages reward you with the comedy of Jay Leno, Elayne Boosler, and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as the wit and wisdom of Hillary Clinton, Stephen King, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Begin by trying to find the clues through trial and error, or follow the tips for faster results. There's a chart of hints for each puzzle that reveals one crucial letter equivalent. Along the way, you'll probably agree with puzzle number 83: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other applicable four-letter words."--W. C. Fields.

X-treme Sudoku

by Nikoli Publishing

Author	: Nikoli Publishing
Publisher	: Workman Publishing
Total Pages	: 424
Release	: 2006-01-01
Genre	: Games & Activities
ISBN	: 9780761146223

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From Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle company that created the sudoku craze, comesa title that starts at hard and goes to a level of difficulty not seen in anyprevious books.

Brain Busting, Mind Twisting, IQ Crushing Puzzles

by Frank Coussement

Author	: Frank Coussement
Publisher	: National Geographic Books
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2011-04-01
Genre	: Games & Activities
ISBN	: 1936140616

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Every puzzle in this book was selected to give you the greatest challenge and the most fun. They will twist and test your logic, challenge your IQ, stump your eyes, and force you to think harder than you ever have before to solve them. The BrainSnack® brand guarantees to train your brain, enhancing logic, imagination, creativity, and memory. This vibrant and appealing collection serves up a huge range of visual and verbal conundrums, from grids and pixel fun to concentration exercises and continuous line challenges.

The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning

by K. Ann Renninger

Author	: K. Ann Renninger
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 1172
Release	: 2019-02-14
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1316832473

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Written by leading researchers in educational and social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience, this edited volume is suitable for a wide-academic readership. It gives definitions of key terms related to motivation and learning alongside developed explanations of significant findings in the field. It also presents cohesive descriptions concerning how motivation relates to learning, and produces a novel and insightful combination of issues and findings from studies of motivation and/or learning across the authors' collective range of scientific fields. The authors provide a variety of perspectives on motivational constructs and their measurement, which can be used by multiple and distinct scientific communities, both basic and applied.

The Little Book of Big Mind Benders

by Scott Kim

Author	: Scott Kim
Publisher	: Workman Publishing
Total Pages	: 433
Release	: 2014-08-26
Genre	: Games & Activities
ISBN	: 0761179771

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Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain—here, in the irresistible 4" x 6" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It’s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim—a contributor to Games and Discover magazines—and adapted from the bestselling Amazing Mind Benders Page-A-Day Calendar, The Little Book of Big Mind Benders is a cornucopia of spatial puzzles, number challenges, wordplay, visual conundrums, and more. The puzzles are categorized by type but distributed throughout the book in a mixed fashion (i.e., a word puzzle next to a number puzzle next to a visual stumper). Readers can move page by page, working different parts of the brain—or easily find their favorite type of puzzle, going from easy to challenging. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap, or untangle the mangled phrases of Lost in Translation. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, and number crunches. Answers are included in the back of the book.

Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

Author	: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 771
Release	: 2018-09-04
Genre	: Humor
ISBN	: 1684124980

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It’s an actual fact—Uncle John is the most entertaining thing in the bathroom! Uncle John and his team of devoted researchers are back again with an all-new collection of weird news stories, odd historical events, dubious “scientific” theories, jaw-dropping lists, and more. This entertaining 31st anniversary edition contains 512 pages of all-new articles that will appeal to readers everywhere. Pop culture, history, dumb crooks, and other actual and factual tidbits are packed onto every page of this book. Inside, you’ll find . . . Dogs and cats who ran for political office The bizarre method people in Victorian England used to resuscitate drowning victims The man who met his future pet—a stray dog—while running across the Gobi Desert Searching for Planet X—the last unknown planet in our solar system Twantrums—strange Twitter rants that had disastrous effects The true story of Boaty McBoatface And much more!