Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind Protect Your Brain from Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders: 75 Large Print Puzzles, Logic Riddles & Brain Teasers - Softcover

Small, Gary; Vorgan, Gigi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1630061891 ISBN 13: 9781630061890

Publisher: Humanix Books, 2023

Synopsis

90 Puzzles, Logic Riddles & Brain Teasers to Exercise Your Mind

From New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Small – an expert on neuroscience, memory, Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, anxiety and human behavior – Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind: Protect Your Brain from Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders will keep your mind sharp and in-shape.

Memory loss and age-related dementia illnesses are among the most frightening diagnoses in the US, affecting nearly six million adult Americans. 

Dr Small provides over 90 puzzles, logic Riddles and brain teasers to exercise your mind, and have fun while staying sharp. 

 

About this title

About the Authors

Dr. Gary Small is a memory, brain & aging expert and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. 

Named one of the world’s leading innovators in science and technology by Scientific American, he has appeared frequently on Today, Good Morning America, PBS, and CNN and lectures throughout the world. Dr. Small has written over ten books, including The New York Times Bestseller The Memory Bible, as well as The Memory Prescription, The Longevity Bible, The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program, The Other Side of the Couch, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head, iBrain, 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain, SNAP!: Change Your Personality in 30 Days, The Small Guide to Anxiety & The Small Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease.He lives and works in the Los Angeles metro area.

http://drgarysmall.com/

https://www.newsmax.com/health/insiders/dr-small/id-222/ 

https://w3.mindhealthreport.com/Health/MHR/Offers/MHR-Renewal 

Gigi Vorgan, in addition to working as a coauthor with her husband Dr. Gary Small, has written feature films and for television. Vorgan and Dr. Small have written over ten books, including The New York Times Bestseller The Memory Bible, as well as The Memory Prescription, The Longevity Bible, The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program, The Other Side of the Couch, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head, iBrain, 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain, SNAP!: Change Your Personality in 30 Days, The Small Guide to Anxiety & The Small Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease.

http://drgarysmall.com/

https://www.newsmax.com/health/insiders/dr-small/id-222/ 

https://w3.mindhealthreport.com/Health/MHR/Offers/MHR-Renewal 

The author lives & works in the Los Angeles metro area.

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Name That Saying

I’ve omitted the vowels and changed the spacing between words in the following sentence. Put your brain power to work and see if you can still recognize the proverb:

RL LNG STNG THRS NM SS

Answer: A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

 

Name That Color

Here’s a brain teaser that will help activate the neural circuits within your brain’s left hemisphere. Rearrange the letters to find the four colors mixed up below. Hint: Only one is a primary color.

EGERN GENRAO TOVEIL EOLWYL

Answer: Green, Orange, Violet, Yellow

 

Insert Letter

As fast as possible, find one letter to put in front of the following words that will change them into new words:

low room east

Answer:  Each of the words becomes a new word if you add the letter “B” at the beginning: blow, broom, beast

 

Mind (Un)Scramble

See how quickly you can mentally unscramble the letters and make sense of this sentence:

The hmuan mnid has phaoenmneal pweor. Aoccdrnig to rsceearchers, the odrer fo ltteer pmacenlet in a wrod deosn’t mttaer as lnog as the frist and lsat letetrs are in the corerct pclae.

Answer: The human mind has phenomenal power. According to researchers, the order of letter placement in a word doesn’t matter as long as the first and last letters are in the correct place.

 

Tricky Division

Here’s one that will exercise how well you follow directions.

Divide the number 50 by one-half and then add 20.

Answer:  If your answer was 45, then you weren’t following the directions carefully. The correct answer is 120 as shown in the following formula: 50 divided by 0.5 = 100 then 100 + 20 = 120

 

Matching Socks

You’re up early for work and don’t want to awaken anyone by turning on the lights; however, you need to get a matching pair of socks from your drawer. You know there are 10 black socks and 10 gray socks in the drawer.

How many socks do you need to remove to ensure you have a pair of matching socks?

Answer:  You only need to remove three socks to ensure you have a matching pair. If your first sock is black and your second sock is gray, the third will have to make a pair with one of the first two socks.

 

Word Count

Using the letters below, jot down as many words as you can with three or more letters. Use each letter only once for each word.

A O M E R A

Answer: Here are the words I jotted down. You may have found even more words. AERO, ARE, ARM, ERA, ORE, RAM, REAM, ROAM, MAR, MARE, MER, MORA, MORE, MORAE

 

Find the Proverb

Figure out the famous proverb from the word jumbles below:

LAL AHTT RGTILEST SI TON ODGL

Answer: All That Glitters is Not Gold

 

Unpredictable Riddles

Watch out for your usual mental assumptions to answer each of the following questions:

1. What moves and has no legs; possesses a bank without any money; and has a mouth but is unable to eat?
2. Matthew McConaughey has a long one. Shelley Long has a short one. Cher and the Pope don’t use one. What is it?
   

Answers: 

1. A River
2. A surname

 

Mystery Words

Use the following clue to figure out the mystery word. Hint: It’s often associated with a laboratory.

4N6

Now that you’re warmed up, see if you can come up with the question posed by the clue below. Hint: Think of a fun activity for your body and mind health.

10SNE1

Answers:

• Forensics
• Tennis Anyone

 

Which Door?

See if you can figure out this fun riddle. You are trying to escape a room that has three exit doors. A rattlesnake is waiting for you behind the first door. A trained assassin is poised behind the second door. Behind the third door is a lion that has not eaten in years.

Which door is your safest exit strategy?

Answer: The third door is your best choice. If the lion had not eaten in years, it would no longer be alive.

 

Who Is That?

This brain teaser may boggle your mind, but if you use simple deductive reasoning you will figure it out. A woman is staring at a photo of someone, and an acquaintance asks her who is in the photo. The woman says, “I have no sisters, but that woman’s mother is my mother’s daughter.”

Who was the woman in the photo?

Answer: Her Daughter.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Humanix Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1630061891
• ISBN 13: 9781630061890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225