The Big Brain Puzzle Book | Review and Giveaway
As you get older, you may notice a decline in your mental faculties, and that can be because of changed connections among cells in your brain.
Just like exercise keeps the muscles in your body healthy, keeping your brain active seems to help with function and maybe even generate new brain cells.
Crosswords and other puzzles are a great way to keep your brain active and so the Alzheimer's Association presents The Big Brain Puzzle Book with over 200 puzzles from Terry Stickels.
Three levels of puzzles are within this book. they range from basic reasoning to higher level math equations.
Both Hubby and Amber are abstract thinkers. Give them a problem, and they will likely find an answer (or two) to solve it.
The Big Brain Puzzle Book is perfect for them to work at together. There are so many differnt varieties of puzzles, that they use thier individual strenths to solve them together.
These puzzles will definitely make you think too. Even the level one puzzles will put your brain through the "think tank" so to speak. I'm pretty sure I generated a whole year's worth of brain cells working on the puzzles just on the first three pages!
This would make a great gift for the intellect on your list, or really anyone who wants to keep their brain in shape.
The Big Brain Puzzle Book is available at Amazon.com for (as of this post being published) $8.63. You can even take a peek a some of the puzzles inside the covers.
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This giveaway will end on December 4, 2009 at 11:59 pm cst and open to U.S. Residents ages 18+. The winner will be chosen by random.org and will be e-mailed. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the e-mail or an alternate winner will be chosen. By entering this giveaway you are stating that you have read my **About Reviews and Privacy/Rules declaration and agree to them.
I received a complimentary copy of The Big Brain Puzzle Book prior to writing this post.
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Reader Comments (83)
I enjoy doing word puzzles. I play online games like Fowl Words and Chicktionary. Jan Mader of Ignite to Write - http://ignitetowrite.blogspot.com/2009/11/hinky-pinky-game-time.html - also had a neat game in which you try to figure out hinky pinkys. It was really fun!
I enjoy word searches and scrambled word puzzles. Thanks so much.
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I dig Sudoku!
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I like doing word searches and crossword puzzles.
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I enjoy puzzles such as scenry but lately been doing alot of cartoons etc... with the kids
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I enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles, I really need this
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I like word puzzles like acrostics, crosswords etc.
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i like all puzzles but i especially like logic thanks minsthins at optonline dot net
word searches and crossword puzzles
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I love puzzle books! Cryptograms are some of my favorite puzzles.
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I like the kind where you have to find a word in a puzzle!
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Sudoku or the Sunday crossword. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I love word scrambles!
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I love crossword puzzles of any kind. The harder the better!
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I like "find it" types. They're more enjoyable when they're online or electronic.
I love doing cross word puzzles. thankyou :)
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Nonograms/paint by numbers/picture crossword - whatever they're called. I like trying to figure out the pictures based on the clues provided.
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i love doing crossword puzzles!!!
I enjoy crosswords!
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I enjoy playing Suduku.
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I love puzzles. I especially love number puzzles like Sudoku
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I like seek and finds, along with number puzzles.
I really like mind bedners, though I don't think that is their official title. It's the one where you have clues and a grid and you make an "x" or "check mark" to figure out what goes together... if that made any sense! I'm sleepy and need to go to bed :)
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My favorite kind are word puzzles, such as Boggle where I have to find the most words from a set of letters. Thanks.
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crosswords and sudko
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i like crosswords!
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I LOVE Soduko :)
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I enjoy doing crossword puzzles.
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