The Advantages of Puzzles: Enhanced Memory and Focus
Team Solve believes in the value of a daily puzzle ritual as part of a healthy lifestyle. We know it can be challenging to justify to ourselves the benefit of doing just this one thing at a time, but we believe that setting time aside to concentrate on your daily Solve puzzle ritual is good for you. Science agrees too, maintaining that puzzles are fun to do and important for good brain health. The real benefits of solving puzzles depends on a few factors including the type of puzzle you choose and your degree of commitment.
Solving puzzles helps to enhance our memory by reinforcing the existing connections between our brain cells and boosts the preparation of new relationships. Both of these benefit our mental speed and thought processes. Science agrees that puzzles are beneficial for every age – young minds because they are flexible and easily trained, and adults and seniors because they are more susceptible to decreased memory function.
The value and importance of puzzle solving is linked to the difficulty or complexity of the puzzle. Everyone’s mind and brain function uniquely so statistics show that people are usually able to handle different types of puzzles at various ages.
Your commitment to your daily puzzle ritual is enhanced when you take time in your day for your Solve puzzle collection. You can choose to focus on puzzle solving and nothing else. When you do, this enhanced focus establishes patterns of behaviour in the brain so that the sense of commitment is built. To focus on puzzle solving requires us to be committed and firm in our choices.
Spotting patterns, like you do when you tackle Solve Sudoku, is what a significant part of our brain is meant to do. Once we spot patterns and add that into our knowledge, our brains can build on strategies and move toward success.
Team Solve agrees that puzzles perform wonders for our brains and everyone, young children to teenagers to adults to seniors, can benefit in a significant way in improved memory, sharpened focus and enhanced brain activity.
Our brains work just like a muscle in some ways – the more we use it the stronger it becomes. For this reason, your Solve puzzle collection is excellent exercise for your brain in terms of enhanced problem-solving, improving memory and thinking outside the norm.
An active brain is a healthy brain. Engaging in a word puzzle ritual on your own, or with a group of friends, is an easy and convenient way to keep your brain active and healthy.
