Games for Your Mind

Games for Your Mind
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9780691200347
ISBN-13 : 0691200343
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Games for Your Mind by : Jason Rosenhouse

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreation Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the history and future of logic puzzles while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself. In this informative and entertaining book, Jason Rosenhouse begins by introducing readers to logic and logic puzzles and goes on to reveal the rich history of these puzzles. He shows how Carroll's puzzles presented Aristotelian logic as a game for children, yet also informed his scholarly work on logic. He reveals how another pioneer of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan, drew on classic puzzles about liars and truthtellers to illustrate Kurt Gödel's theorems and illuminate profound questions in mathematical logic. Rosenhouse then presents a new vision for the future of logic puzzles based on nonclassical logic, which is used today in computer science and automated reasoning to manipulate large and sometimes contradictory sets of data. Featuring a wealth of sample puzzles ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious puzzles ever devised, including the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories.

Five-Minute Brain Workout

Five-Minute Brain Workout
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Publisher : Skyhorse
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9781628734706
ISBN-13 : 1628734701
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Five-Minute Brain Workout by : Kim Chamberlain

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. The key to such exercise is to constantly learn and regularly challenge your brain’s capabilities with new tasks. Regularly doing series of short, varied tasks will keep your thinking faculties focused and flexible. Five-Minute Brain Workout contains a wide variety of games and puzzles for people who enjoy words and language. There are ten examples of the same kind of game or puzzle with a wide variety of types of each. While the puzzles have specific answers, the games do not, which means you can continue to develop your creativity by doing them more than once and coming up with different answers. And there are enough puzzles and games for a year’s worth of challenging your mind. The book’s contents can be used in any number of ways: to challenge yourself or simply have fun or as a competition against time or other people. These exercises work in many settings: home, work, schoolrooms, training and therapy sessions, and as an icebreaker at social gatherings.

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

399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young.
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Publisher : Workman Publishing
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780761168256
ISBN-13 : 0761168257
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young. by : Nancy Linde

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.

Brain Games

Brain Games
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Publisher : Schocken
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000010145388
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Brain Games by : Richard B. Fisher

Contains 134 games that open up new avenues of knowledge and allow you to discover your own brain while learning about brain theory and research.

Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind: Protect Your Brain From Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders

Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind: Protect Your Brain From Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders
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Publisher : Humanix Books
Total Pages : 221
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781630061906
ISBN-13 : 1630061905
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind: Protect Your Brain From Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders by : Gary Small

90 Puzzles, Logic Riddles & Brain Teasers to Exercise Your Mind From New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Small – an expert on neuroscience, memory, Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, anxiety and human behavior – Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind: Protect Your Brain from Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders will keep your mind sharp and in-shape. Memory loss and age-related dementia illnesses are among the most frightening diagnoses in the US, affecting nearly six million adult Americans. Dr Small provides over 90 puzzles, logic Riddles and brain teasers to exercise your mind, and have fun while staying sharp.

Brain Games

Brain Games
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Publisher : National Geographic Kids
Total Pages : 164
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781426332852
ISBN-13 : 1426332858
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Brain Games by : Stephanie Drimmer

Grab a pencil and get ready to become a problem-solving superstar with activities, puzzles, and games that will give your brain a serious boost. Master mystifying mazes, crack coded messages, and uncover the secrets behind optical illusions, all while learning about your own amazing mind.

Ultimate Mind Games

Ultimate Mind Games
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Publisher : Parragon Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1680524712
ISBN-13 : 9781680524710
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Ultimate Mind Games by : Parragon Books

Ultimate Mind Games is a fantastic compendium that includes 400 puzzles to test your mind, set up over four sections so you can choose the puzzle that fits your mood. Become an all-around puzzler and improve your sudoku, word search, crossword, and brain game skills. The perfect way of improving your vocabulary, mental agility, and problem-solving skills, this puzzle-packed book will provide you with hours of mind-sharpening fun! 400 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy, including solutions for each challenge EASY-TO-CARRY Pocket format, small enough to fit in a purse, briefcase, or backpack. Great for on-the-go wherever your travels take you. Just the right size to leave on your nightstand and coffee table VARIETY OF PUZZLES 150 sudoku puzzles, 77 word searches, 79 crosswords, and over 100 mind puzzles! MAKES A GREAT GIFT For the novice to expert this word search book makes a great gift! ON-THE GO POCKET PUZZLE COLLECTION Look for more puzzle books including Extreme word search and Fantastic Word Search

Brain Games

Brain Games
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 164
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781426330179
ISBN-13 : 1426330170
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Brain Games by : Stephanie Drimmer

An activity book that acts as a companion to the TV series Brain games.

Brain Games For Clever Kids

Brain Games For Clever Kids
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Publisher : Buster Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1780552491
ISBN-13 : 9781780552491
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Brain Games For Clever Kids by : Gareth Moore

This book is brimming with memory, word and number workouts, codes, battleships and mind-bending spot the differences, as well as Japanese puzzles including hanjie, kakuro, futoshiki, sudoku and lots more. Let the brain games begin!

Mind Games

Mind Games
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Publisher : Swoon Reads
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1250192927
ISBN-13 : 9781250192929
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Mind Games by : Shana Silver

A teen programmer at a school for geniuses must join forces with a boy she can't remember to stop a hacker from deleting their memories in Shana Silver’s action-packed YA debut, Mind Games. Arden sells memories. Whether it’s becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important test, Arden can hack into a classmate’s memories and upload the experience for you just as if you’d lived it yourself. Business is great, right up until the day Arden whites out, losing fifteen minutes of her life and all her memories of the boy across the school yard. The boy her friends assure her she’s had a crush on for years. Arden realizes that her own memories have been hacked, but they haven’t just been stolen and shared... they’ve been removed. And she’s not the only one: her mysterious crush, Sebastian, has lost ALL of his memories. But how can they find someone who has the power to make them forget everything they’ve learned? Praise from the Swoon Reads community: “An absolute roller coaster ride.... I loved it. I absolutely loved it!” —Pamela Delupio “An awesome concept and a gripping mystery... a wild ride from beginning to end.” —T. K. Yeager