Picture Puzzles For Dummies - Softcover

Cardenas-Nelson, Elizabeth J.; Connolly, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470506857 ISBN 13: 9780470506851

Publisher: For Dummies, 2009

Synopsis

Exercise your brain with hundreds of colorful, mind-blowing photo puzzles

Sudoku, 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 this title

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.

From the Back Cover

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!

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470506857
• ISBN 13: 9780470506851
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192