Picture Puzzles For Dummies^?

by Elizabeth J. Cardenas-Nelson; Jennifer Connolly

• ISBN13: 9780470561294
• ISBN10: 0470561297
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

Exercise your brain with hundreds of colorful, mind-blowing photo puzzlesSudoku, crosswords, word searches, and other brainteasers are wildly popular these days-not just because they're fun, but also because they stimulate the mind and keep it active and healthy. Now there's a new puzzle guide guaranteed to hone your powers of observation and perception.Picture Puzzles For Dummies features 100 full-color puzzles that use sight to enhance your brain capacity as well as keep you amused for hours! This portable guide features 100 fun and challenging photo puzzles Includes "spot the changes" puzzles, "cut-ups", "which one of these is not like the others", and a collection of bewildering "black and white" puzzles Visual puzzles have been proven to strengthen memory, attention span, and creativity, as well as amplify logic, vocabulary, and deduction skills.Whether you're completely new to puzzles or you're a puzzle fanatic, Picture Puzzles For Dummies is the perfect guide to keep you entertained.

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You're Not to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Picking Apart Picture Puzzles

Progressing through the Puzzles

Checking Your Work - No Peeking!

The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Picking Apart Picture Puzzles

Getting Set to Solve Picture Puzzles

Getting a Feel for the Picture Puzzle Types

Checking out changes

Knowing which one is not like the other

Working a jigsaw puzzle . . . on paper

Serving Up Solving Strategies

Spotting the differences

Eyeing the oddball

Piecing the picture together

Pumping Mental Iron with Picture Puzzles

Breaking a sweat with your brain

Taking it to the next level

Progressing through the Puzzles

Checking Your Work - No Peeking!

The Part of Tens

Ten Tips for Solving

Getting Organized

Establishing a Solving Routine

Keeping Track of What You've Done

Limiting Distractions

Scanning the Forest . . .. . . . Scouring the Trees

Trying a New Strategy

Taking a Break . . . But Don't Quit!

Wrangling out of a Rut

Noticing the Unnoticeable

Ten Ways to Build Your Brain for Better Solving

Keeping Your Focus

Finding the Right Spot to Settle In

Engaging Your Attention

Trying a Variety of Other Puzzles

Taking a Break from Mind-Numbing Activities

Learning Something New

Reading, Writing, and 'Rithmetic

Clearing Your Mind

Eating Right

Keeping Active

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