Games for the Brain

Crosswords in Retirement Villages

We know how important it is to keep our minds active at all ages but it becomes increasingly important after 50 years of age. Age, combined with all those life habits which aren’t so good for you, start to show up in slowed brain function.
Crosswords and puzzles are an excellent way to help keep your [...]

Puzzle Spot on Facebook

Do you have a Facebook page? There are not too many households that don’t have at least one member with a Facebook account. It is the biggest social networking site online.
Facebook, and other forms of social media, are great for getting your brain working. Interacting with others and being curious about their posts gets connectors [...]

Jigsaw Puzzles for Fun

Test your powers of logic and observation with jigsaw puzzles online from Puzzle Factory. OK, have fun with it too! Even the kids will like this one.

Chess for Beginners

Chess is the ultimate strategy game and it exercises a part of the brain that word and number puzzles don’t touch.
This is a video for beginners and it teaches you a little about chess, what the pieces are, how they move and what you are trying to do. If you don’t play chess you might like [...]

Meet Mr Puzzles

Sometimes you need to give someone a gift and it can’t be really hard to think of something that is ‘different’, can’t it?
Obviously, you could buy a subscription to our great new printed puzzle books which would make them very happy. You could also go to Mr Puzzles and have a look at the clever [...]

Use your logic

Here is a quick puzzle from Brain-Fun.com for you to work through. How logical are you?
On top of Mount Dilemma sits the monastery of Grand Enigma. Seven of the monks are on a diet of bread and water. Each of them has confessed to a different pair of deadly sins. And each sin has claimed a [...]

Rapid Naming

We humans have a name for everything. We can identify a can no matter what size, shape or colour it is because we have learnt to recognise specific properties. We know what a dog is no matter what breed it is and the fact that it has whiskers, four legs and a tail does not [...]

Fill in time with a puzzle

We read an excellent post over at Disabled World in which we were pleased to have been mentioned. The post was all about things to do in hospital. If you have ever had to fill in time in hospital you will know how long and boring it can be. This was a really clever post [...]

iphone apps

The iPhone seems to be everywhere lately, doesn’t it? It is amazingly popular and some of the reason for that popularity is the vast selection of applications that can be downloaded to it.
There are some great ‘brain food’ applications meaning that you can take them with you wherever you go. Among the apps are Sudoku, [...]