My Puzzle Book 1

Puzzles are very good for the brain! Not only do they take your mind off any pressures and tensions in your day-to-day life, but they actively stimulate and improve the way the mind works in the compelling search for solutions.

Reinforcing pathways between our brain cells helps to create new connections, improving memory, mental speed and agility. These skills are transferrable to our work and our social life, helping us to be flexible and adaptable, and positively changing our mindset and perspective.

BRIGHT SPARKS is a series of 32 books to keep you busy as you improve your mental agility. Practice makes perfect, and if you can incorporate a page or more of the puzzles into your daily routine, you are sure to see improvements in your thinking, your memory, and your vocabulary. If you come across a new word, why not write it down to check out later?

There are three different sorts of puzzle in this book for you bright sparks to crack, and we feel sure that you will manage to sort them all out! Go at your own pace and enjoy being a detective as you seek for the answers. Don't worry if it takes some time - your mind is growing!

The first 40 puzzles are SUDOKU, where you must find which numbers need placing in each empty box. The idea is to fill the 9x9 grid, and the smaller 3x3 grids within it, so that each column and row, and each 3x3 grid, contain all the digits from 1-9. These puzzles work logically.

The next 20 puzzles are WORD SEARCHES, and you will find a variety of subjects, and possibly some words you have never heard of. You simply have to spot where the sequence of letters lies - is it horizontally, vertically, or perhaps another way?

The third section of puzzles is about CODES . There are 40 sentences, taken from aphorisms, strange sayings of the famous, etc., and your task is to make sense of it all by decoding the letters. There are a few blank pages for you, to use for working out!

You will find all the answers in the back of the Puzzle Book.