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Improve Your Reasoning by Solving These Logic Puzzles

May 14, 2014 by

Frequent logical thinking helps to sharpen your mind and enables you to think faster during stressful situations. Thinking logically benefits your brain in a variety of different ways, and it even helps you to retain your awareness as you age. If you want to exercise your mind in a fun way, these online logic puzzles are a great place to start.

Puzzle Baron’s Logic Puzzles
Full of grid-based logic puzzles in a variety of skill levels, the Logic Puzzles page from Puzzle Baron is ideal for anyone who wants to sharpen his or her analytical thinking using numerical data. Each puzzle offers a number of categories, with an equal number of options within that category. Using a series of clues, you must figure out which options are linked together. If you want to solve puzzles while on the go, Puzzle Baron even offers mobile apps for iPad, Kindle, Google Play, and Nook.

Brain Bashers
The logic puzzles on the Brain Bashers site are more situational, mainly featuring descriptions of an event and a series of clues related to that event. Based on the information given, you must solve the question posed in the situation. While these logic puzzles don’t involve math equations or long strings of information, their simple nature often makes them more challenging.

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Find Sudoku Puzzles Online With These Sites

March 20, 2014 by

Sudoku is a stimulating and addictive pastime that’s great for down time at work, relaxing at home, or even waiting in line at the doctor’s office. If you want to start learning Sudoku or you simply want to find more puzzles, these online Sudoku sites are some of the best.

Gamehouse Sudoku
For everyone from the beginner to the serious Sudoku player, this beautifully designed site offers an endless number of games at your choice of beginner, easy, medium, hard, or expert levels. It features a time clock to help you track how long you’ve been playing, as well as Sudoku tips to help you improve your game. If you start to feel frustrated, you can also check the solution and begin a new game.

Web Sudoku
If you just want the Sudoku game board with none of the extra features, this is the site for you. Web Sudoku offers a clean, black and white board with easy-to-read numbers, as well as games in your choice of easy, medium, hard, or evil (yikes!). This site also offers an offline version for times when you’re away from Wi-Fi.

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Learn About Chess Variants Online

February 20, 2014 by

Chess variants are other games derived from or inspired by the game of chess. Most of these games use different pieces, have different game boards, or use different rules from traditional chess. Whether you already play and love chess or you simply can’t get into the game, just about anyone will love to play these exciting and logical alternatives to the historical game of chess.

Chess960
Chess960 is a chess variant that uses the same pieces and the same game board, but the pieces in the first rank are randomized, with opposing pieces mirroring them. This is a great game for expert chess players, because it makes it impossible to memorize opening lines.

Glinski’s Hexagonal Chess
This derivation of chess uses a unique hexagonal board instead of the standard square chess board. The board contains 91 cells in three different colors, and it uses the usual chess pieces, with the addition of one extra bishop and one extra pawn. Glinski’s chess is an incredibly popular variant, especially in Eastern Europe.

Apocalypse
Apocalypse is played on a much smaller scale than regular chess, using only a 5×5 board and two horses and five footmen on each team. The two players make their moves simultaneously, and the game is over when one player captures all of the other player’s footmen.

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