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299 On-the-Go Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young

Minutes a Day to Mental Fitness
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299 On-the-Go Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young offers a compact collection of mental exercises designed for quick, enjoyable brain workouts anytime, anywhere. Created by Nancy Linde, an expert in cognitive fitness games, this book features a diverse mix of word puzzles, picture games, logic challenges, tongue twisters, and trivia quizzes. Each puzzle targets essential cognitive functions including memory, executive functioning, attention, multitasking, and processing speed, helping to maintain and sharpen mental agility with just minutes of play each day.
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Ideal for puzzle enthusiasts of all ages seeking a portable way to boost brain health. Suitable for anyone wanting engaging, brief mental challenges during spare moments like waiting in lines or appointments.

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Minutes a day to mental fitness, with all-new, genuinely fun brain games from 399 Games... author Nancy Linde, in an easy-to-take-along size.

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Mental fitness in just minutes a day! It's genuinely fun to keep your brain sharp with this small book of games and puzzles, perfect for popping into a purse, tote bag, or briefcase, so you can enjoy the puzzles, and all their benefits, while on the go.

Nancy Linde is an expert on creating games that exercise the brain in the same way that a skilled trainer helps us exercise the body. The beauty of her puzzles is how they are created to target six key cognitive functions while providing fun for the solver. So here are the classic types – word puzzles, picture games, logic puzzles, tongue twisters, and trivia quizzes – making this a rich mixture of games sure to appeal to all ages.

And with what amazing benefits: here are games designed to stimulate long-term memory and games designed to flex working memory. Games for executive functioning, for attention to detail, for multitasking, and processing speed. In all, 299 On-the-Go Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young contains 299 games that you can take anywhere and turn even an idle moment, like standing in line or waiting at the doctor’s office, into a completely entertaining (and healthy) workout interval for your brain.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781523506477

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Workman Adult

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 176.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Nancy Linde created and runs Never2Old4Games.com, an online subscription service for activities professionals working with senior citizens at assisted living residences, retirement communities, senior centres, and other senior-serving organisations. She has produced, written, and directed more than a dozen documentary films, including for the PBS series NOVA. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

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