Last week I wrote about the brain training I was going to try out with the use of a book called Brainstumpers.
In total the book housed 85 different puzzles to complete, having now completed it and added up my scores I managed 45/85, or 53% correct. I have to admit I found it very tough. Although only getting half right sounds a bit dumb I’m actually very pleased with it. Although I’m pleased with my score, there is also a lot of room to improve, which is great.
Certain types of questions I was good at, others I just couldn’t do to save my life! No matter how often they popped up I could never figure out how you worked out the answer. Without knowing the method all you can do is guess. Thankfully though I didn’t get very lucky on the guess front because that would have given a flattering score.
Here is an example of the kind of question I got stuck on:
2M 5T 3A 1S ??
I’m not going to tell you the answer, or even give you a clue. To be honest looking at the answer, I would never have got it no matter how long I thought about it. If you are desperate for the answer you are welcome to email me!
There is no doubt how hard you have to think to solve such puzzles, you really have to work your mind in a variety of different ways to solve all the different kinds of puzzles.
I’m going to keep doing similar exercises to see how much I can improve. So does it work? I think there is no doubt, it gets you thinking in a way you don’t have to in general life. Personally the extent to which it works (IE how much I improve) will only be known long-term. But I highly recommend you try something like this as it can be fun, and improves you brain at the same time!
If you want to buy the brainstumpers books they are available on Amazon for around £6 (at the time of writing). And they also have a lot more Puzzle and solution type books on Amazon so it’s worth checking out.
My health body, healthy mind quest continues…
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