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Logic Puzzles
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We all like to solve logical puzzles so much so that they are a big part of many kinds of entertainment. The fun people have trying to solve mysteries has created a multimillion dollar book niche all by itself. Plus most good adventures and movie mysteries call for the audience to try to solve the puzzle along with or before the on screen detectives. Dozens of television shows have replicated the Sherlock Holmes mystery model to tease an audience and give them clues to try to solve the mystery before the star of the show does. From Murder She Wrote to Monk to Matlock to Alfred Hitchcock, we all love to solve puzzles in our minds. Of course, these kinds of logical puzzles are used a lot in education. Who of us has not had a child come home from school with the classic math problem about two trains that were going separate directions or other logical puzzles? Such logical analysis word problems are also a big part of important tests like the SAT and other entrance exams. Youth who have been exposed to this kind of puzzle know how to filter out irrelevant information, to stitch together seemingly unrelated facts that can lead to the proper conclusion and then formulate a solution. Even though logical kinds of word puzzles are used a lot education, they never cease to be popular as entertainment at all levels of play from adult mystery games or even simple children's logical puzzles that make the little ones draw conclusions and solve a well designed puzzle or mystery. For all of us, this kind of mental work out is really great brain exercise. Puzzles like this build our ability to look at a problem situation, gather necessary clues or data to draw a proper conclusion and then organize that data into a solution that makes sense. Science tells us that much about how our brains go about solving problems like this is a mixture of the logical machinery of organized thinking and the intuitive ability to think "from the gut" to know when information is important for the solution and when it is unnecessary distraction. In most puzzles, such "rabbit trails" are intuitionally put there to make it more fun sorting out the answers. By taking pleasure in logical games, we naturally take that skill into life and take just as much pleasure solving life's puzzles as we do in playing mental games with logical word puzzles in our leisure time.
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The availability of virtually an endless supply of logic based puzzles that you can access for any occasion and age group. A casual hour spent at your local bookstore will reveal entire aisles devoted to crossword, jumble and all kinds of logical puzzles for every age. You can find great puzzles to keep you amused on a long car trip or to use with a bunch of bored little ones who need their brains stimulated. On top of that, like everything else, the internet is virtually exploding with resources for logic based puzzles, games and activities. So you should have no trouble keeping everybody guessing and their brains working hard solving puzzles to make them smarter and quicker witted for school and life as well.
Logic puzzles. Daily Treasure
by Carlllord
17 Jan 2012 at 4:01pm
Logic riddles inspired by the game of the Porcia's coffers of The Merchant of Venice that Raymond Smullyan says in his book: What Is the Name of This Book?
Math and Logic Puzzles: Monte Hall Logic and Probability
by Praveen Puri
17 Jan 2012 at 10:43pm
I've read about the Monte Hall Problem in a few different places. Basically, the situation is that you are on a game show, and there are 3 doors in front of you. There is a car behind one door, and goats behind the other two.
Math and Logic Puzzles: "Cloud" Accounting for Small Businesses
by Praveen Puri
17 Jan 2012 at 10:50pm
"Cloud" Accounting for Small Businesses. Most of the "cloud" applications I hear about are aimed at individuals or large companies. Also, the applications tend to be in areas such as sales, marketing, or storage. But, recently, I ...
Luggage Tuesdays: 3 Logic Puzzles
by noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman)
2 Jan 2012 at 5:30pm
To discover which room has the princess, you must solve a series of logic puzzles, each more -- " "Excuse me," interrupted the young man. "But I can't hear you while the tiger behind the orange door is always roaring." 2.
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by unknown
17 Jan 2012 at 9:03pm
More than 20000 logic puzzles ranging from first-grade easy to astrophysicist hard await you in this fun brain-training endeavor. Progress along the path to enlightenment when you select the correct solutions, then watch as the rest of the ...
Math and Logic Puzzles: Enjoying Sudoku Logic Puzzles
by Praveen Puri
5 Jan 2012 at 11:07pm
Enjoying Sudoku Logic Puzzles. I enjoy solving Sudoku puzzles. In the last decade, Sudoku has grown to rival crossword puzzles in popularity. A Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid with nine 3x3 mini-grids. The 81 boxes ...
Puzzle-Based Learning for Kids
by Jen
16 Jan 2012 at 5:47pm
Logic puzzles are some of my favorites to create. Huh. Imagine that. ... Look for physical puzzles (like Rubik's Cube), picture puzzles, word and story puzzles, number and math puzzles, logic puzzles, etc. Everyone has ...
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by Carole Ashley
16 Jan 2012 at 9:31am
The craze these days was started in the UK when a newspaper started to publish these logic puzzles. Within weeks the puzzles were picked up in other newspapers and Sudoku became the pastime of choice for commuters, ...
Math and Logic Puzzles: Finding The Interest Rate
by Praveen Puri
5 Jan 2012 at 10:47pm
Now, let us look at the opposite problem. If we have a starting amount and ending amount, after X number of time periods, what is the average interest rate per time period? We can use awk. For example, If we started with ...
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering a great free game that ...
by B.C. Tietjens
17 Jan 2012 at 1:01am
Well this game is somewhat akin to that, in a virtual setting, and with the focus being on solving logic puzzles rather than building the coolest thing possible. It's both much easier, and far more complex than it sounds at first.
Teach English with logic puzzles and ESL word games. | eslwriting.org
by eslwriter
28 Nov 2011 at 5:14pm
Learning English does not have to be a boring exercise in grammar drills and vocabulary memorization. Here in Korea, getting the students to use English as a.
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10 Jan 2012 at 6:15pm
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by software
17 Jan 2012 at 10:30pm
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Math and Logic Puzzles: Math Tutoring for Elementary Students
by Praveen Puri
5 Jan 2012 at 11:24pm
A mathematics education is a fundamental skill that all children need to learn. Today, a good grounding in math is a requirement for a lot of good jobs - such as programming, machine tools, science, engineering, etc.
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by ideasman88
15 Jan 2012 at 1:55pm
Today, a number of companies have taken a page out of the Google playbook and have begun asking interviewees brainteasers, logic puzzles and mind-bending riddles. The question you probably have right now is, Why?
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