December, 2008
How do you Sudoku?
How To Play Sudoku By Garrett Nielsen
Sudoku is a not a game involving math but a game of numbers. You don’t really have to work out calculations or do complex algebra. This game requires logic and an elementary degree of deductive reasoning. The main aim of the puzzle is to fill all the blank squares [...]
Answer to the Anagram Puzzle
How did you go with sorting out the Australiana Anagrams? It can be time consuming can’t it? I am always amazed at the number of words you can make out of one ordinary word.
Here are the answers.
Ayers Rock
Townsville
Murray River
Tennant Creek
Eucalyptus
Kangaroo
South Africa
What was the odd word out? South Africa, of course! Congratulations if you got it [...]
Anagrams
A great way to keep your mind active during the festive season is to work out anagrams.
An anagram is a word puzzle. A word has had all its letters rearranged so that you can’t tell what it was. For example ’salt’ could become ’slat’.
Just to help you keep your wits about you we have created [...]
Times and Places for Games for the Brain
Games for the brain are perfect to play in a variety of situations.
Solve a sudoku daily while you are sitting down to your breakfast cereal. It will really set you up for the day.
Take a crossword or codeword puzzle to take with you on the train to work in the morning.
For mental stimulation during [...]
Games for the Brain – Perfect for Rainy Days!
Like many families, mine went on a camping holiday once a year at Christmas. Living in Australia, you tend to assume you are going to have good, hot, beach weather. I remember one year this was definitely not the case. It rained solidly for the first three days!
Although we not terribly impressed, we realised we just had [...]
Crossword Puzzle Clue Tips
Sometimes a crossword puzzle clue just stumps me. I have no idea what the answer could be. Sometimes it is a tricky word and sometimes I have answered an intesecting word incorrectly. I hate to leave a crossword puzzle half done so I have found a few techniques for getting past this block.
I have found [...]
Test Your General Knowledge In the Crosswords for Fun Trivia Challenge
I am very excited to let you know that you can now have a daily dose of mental gymnastics by playing in the Crosswords for Fun Trivia Challenge.
It’s a great way to boost your general knowledge; there is a huge variety of questions. You can even invite your friends, family and co-workers to play against you. I [...]
Non-traditional Puzzles
Not all games come in the traditional format of paper and pen. These days there are many more ways to play your favourite games.
Have a look at your mobile phone. What games does it have? I am sure that if you look you will find things that you didn’t even know were there.
You can buy [...]
Happy Birthday Scrabble!
Apparently today is the birthday of ever popular game Scrabble.
Scrabble went through a few evolutions before it became the game we know today. A man by the name of Alfred Butts came up with the original concept in the USA during the Depression. His original game was called Lexico and it was played without a [...]
Puzzles on the Move
Travelling can be boring especially if you are on a long flight or a trip where you really can’t just get off and walk around. You can’t sleep for the whole trip and it is a safe bet that your return flight will involve a screening of the same movies you had on the way [...]
