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The fun way to enhance your brain power!
You've heard the saying, "use it or lose it" — now is the time to pump mental iron and muscle-up your memory with picture puzzles! This easy-to-access, practical guide gives you expert advice on solving 100 visual puzzles that will help exercise your memory, train your attention, reduce tension, and keep your brain challenged. From easy to bewildering, these picture puzzles will show you that breaking a sweat with your brain has never been so much fun.
Establish a solving routine — discover how having a routine helps build your confidence to solve puzzles smarter and faster
Keep track of what you've done — grab a pencil and jot down notes to keep track of your puzzle-solving progress
Notice the unnoticeable — discover how to hone your attention to detail to solve even the most puzzling puzzles
Try a new strategy — use a new approach to finish off a hard-to-solve puzzle
Open the book and find:
100 baffling picture puzzles
Spot-the-changes, cut-ups, and one-of-these-is-not-like-the-others puzzles
A collection of bewildering black-and-white puzzles
Puzzles organized by level of difficulty
Ten ways to build your brain for better solving
Hints for plugging in the obvious parts
Advice on when to take a break . . . but not give up
Tips on checking your work
Making Everything Easier!
Learn to:
Solve 100 puzzles, from easy to challenging
Have fun while honing your powers of observation
Solve puzzles faster with clever strategies
Keep your brain healthy and sharp
IN FULL COLOR!
Synopsis
Picture Puzzles For Dummies provides readers with the opportunity to solve several types of puzzles with 100 mind-blowing photo puzzles. Joining the traditional spot the changes puzzles are cut-ups, which one of these is not like the others, and even a collection of bewildering black and white puzzles.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Elizabeth J. Cárdenas-Nelson is a former Adobe Photoshop instructor and a devoted puzzler.
Jennifer Connolly is a professional editor and author with a passion for puzzling.
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.
Part I: Picking Apart Picture Puzzles.
Part II: Progressing through the Puzzles.
Part III: Checking Your Work — No Peeking!
Part IV: The Part of Tens.
Icons Used in This Book.
Where to Go from Here.
Part I: Picking Apart Picture Puzzles.
Chapter 1: 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.
Part II: Progressing through the Puzzles.
Part III: Checking Your Work — No Peeking!
Part IV: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 2: 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.
Chapter 3: 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.