Brain exercises increase your memory capacity, attention span, brain speed, people skills, intelligence and navigation. As you age, it’s important to keep your brain sharp. Puzzles are a great way to maintain and build your brain health.
Research has shown that doing jigsaw puzzles recruits multiple cognitive abilities and is a protective factor for visuospatial cognitive aging. In other words, when putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you have to look at different pieces and figure out where they fit within the larger picture. This can be a great way to challenge and exercise your brain.
Types of puzzles are:
Also, use the link below to try these on-line puzzle exercises.