Wooden puzzles offer the unique benefits of being fun and educational at the same time, which helps explain why they are so popular. They are used by people of all ages and walks of life from nursery schools and day care centers to schools, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers, where they provide therapy and retraining of lost skills for those people who have suffered a stroke or brain injury.
Skills that children learn will become a part of their foundation as they grow. Reasoning... Read Full Story
Physical fitness and Brain fitness are every bit significant. By exercising the body physical fitness can be improved, the same way brain also needs to be exercised. Although scientific support is restricted to the concept of brain fitness you can see this term in self-help books and commercial products. Brain fitness came into universe in eighties. It is the capacity to take on life’s various cognitive demands. Brain fitness can be acquired by training, actively and mentally pursuing life... Read Full Story
With so many forms of entertainment available today, games and puzzles remain a fun way to pass the time, a means of instilling good sportsmanship in children, and a way to bring families together. In fact, there are addicting games for people of all ages. Monopoly, however, has to rank on almost everyone’s list of the most addicting games of all time.
When thinking about addicting games, Monopoly is one of the first board games to come to mind. Who hasn’t spent hours scheming to trade... Read Full Story
You can get touch technology with almost anything and that includes apparently the Rubik’s Cube. It is a variation of the puzzle that has confused people worldwide for well over thirty years and now it comes with a dual use.
If you find that it is just impossible to complete just place it on the side and say that you bought it as a lamp, they will never know.
Features – Touch sensors on all sides detect your finger and a motion detecting accelerometer determines which face is active... Read Full Story
All you techies out there who love tinkering with gadgets should read this DIY. Now you can make a cool modified USB Flash Drive Rubiks Cube and exercise your brain wherever, whenever. See the video for all the details.
material:
a very small usb flash drive (e.g. EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive or Delock USB Nano Memory stick)
(e.g. from http://usb.brando.com/eagletec-usb-nano-flash-drive_p00892c041d15.html)
a corner piece of a Rubik Cube
an edge piece of a Rubik Cube... Read Full Story
Dr. Pascale Michelon recently shared with our readers which brain areas and cognitive functions are engaged as we solve the type of brain teaser known as Spot the Difference, where we have to find the differences between two versions of one image:
"1) You have to identify the objects that you see: this involves your occipital lobes (in red).
2) You have to analyzed the spatial relationships between the objects that you see: this involves your occipital and parietal lobes (in green... Read Full Story
Matchstick Puzzles
Matchstick Puzzles are nothing new and probably date back to the time when we had no electricity and everyone carried matches around to light the candles.
Matchstick puzzles are basically rearrangement puzzles in which a number of matchsticks are arranged as squares, rectangles or triangles. The problem is to usually form in a specific number of moves another shape of some kind.
Matchstick puzzles normally involve lateral thinking and is not just about making... Read Full Story
Professor Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube puzzle has come out with his latest brain teaser puzzle known as Rubik’s Cube 360. The new puzzle hopes to build on the success of the original cube which became one of the best selling toys over the last 30 years.
Cube 360 features six balls trapped within three plastic spheres. The objective of the game is to move the balls from the inner chamber to the matching spots in the outer chamber through two holes in the middle sphere.
The... Read Full Story
We now have a pattern showing below formed by nice matchsticks. Can you move two matchsticks to make four equal-sized rectangles? Easy? How about this one? There is a pink circle in a matc hstick made spade shape. Again, you can only move two matchsticks to get the pink circle out of the spade. Remember, the spade shape will stay in your answer :-) I will show you how in my next post. Read Full Story
