hi all, im looking for a good puzzle to test my logic skills do you have any reccomendations?
hi all, im looking for a good puzzle to test my logic skills do you have any reccomendations?
I personally love a jigsaw. Don't do them very often but really enjoy them when I do. I like that you can dip in and out of them when you feel like it.
are jigsaw puzzles any good for us AuDHD types?
Some answers are anagrams of one or more words, some with words like "note" are musical notations, words like "engineer" are often ER, as is hestitation, thats an "err" too, you get roman numerals, greek letters and all sorts, for me its what makes them so interesting. It's a totally different thought process to normal crosswords.
I have just found some great puzzle books which I'm really enjoying. One is the official cluedo book of puzzles. I like this as it has a back story and a huge variety of puzzles, many of which involve logic. They are not too difficult. I find it frustrating when you get a puzzle book and just can't solve any of them. But they're not so simple that they can't be solved. I also got a 1% club book. I don't know whether you've seen it on TV. I enjoy the show as there is a lot of logic involved in the questions so I'm enjoying the book too. Thought I'd mention it incase either appealed to you.
I've never been any good at crosswords, even easy ones. I am not sure why.
Cryptic ones just seem to have random answers.
I have never been able to work out cryptic crosswords. Even when I look up the answer, I often still don't understand them.
I don't know if they're logic puzzles or not, but I've recently got into cryptic crosswords, you really have to work them out and learn the rules to them, things like anything with a P usually means quiet or quietly
Thank you for this. I often start my day with puzzles on New York times websites but I wasn't aware of sky news. There are some good ones on there.
We do the ones on NewYork Time site, though they keep changing what you can do for free. Currently my favourites there are pips (domino style puzzles in 3 difficulties) and spangrams (a word search style puzzle). New ones daily.
Puzzle video games like Professor Layton, Pheonix Wright, Hotel Dusk, 999 are fun, but will depend if you already on something to play them on.
My favourite one at the moment is a free one on Sky news website. There have a few free things each day, 3 sudoku (easy medium hard), 3 mental arithmetic ones, and one called Make Tracks (which I find addictive).
I used to do sudoku years ago but I don't seem as good at it now. I did books of logic puzzles 40+ years ago too.
If you want pattern recognition then jigsaws are fun. You can turn them over if you like just looking at shapes and do them from the back. I've done it with 500 piece ones. I found the 1000 piece ones too easy so I had a 4000 or 5000 piece one once, but it was too big. It took ages to do as well. It was a proper challenge, but could be frustrating when you spend an hour and don't do 1 piece.
I think the issue is to find the right balance of reward and effort. Not too easy and not too hard.
i tried hexa sort, its logic, strategy, reasoning and foresight
i love repetition its good for my focus skills
I enjoy logic grid puzzles. You can get puzzle books of them. If you enjoy murder mystery there is a particular book called Murdle which is quite fun but does get repetitive.
I took a survey yesterday that gave examples of various types of digital games and puzzles, including logic skills. I took screenshots, to check out those that I didn't know about. I'll share some of them here, in case they're of interest:
Logic puzzles: Sudoku, Nonograms, Picross, Einstein's Riddle, the Towers of Hanoi.
Word puzzles / games: Word search puzzles, ScrabbleGo, Words with Friends, Wordscapes, Wordle, Squaredle.
Number puzzles: KenKen, 2048.
Digital versions of board games: backgammon, bridge, checkers / draughts.
Zen puzzle games: Energy, Flow, Pipes, Swipe.
Strategy games / puzzles: Trivial Pursuit Chess, Mahjong, Tetris.
Match-3 games: Bejeweled, Candy Crush Saga.
Hidden object games: Hidden Folks, Where's Waldo?
Point-and-click adventure games: Monkey Island, Myst.
Visual puzzles: Connect the Dots, Jigsaw puzzles, Tiles.
Maze puzzles: Snakebird, The Witness.
Escape room puzzles: Escape the Room, The Room.
Physics-based puzzles: Angry Birds, Cut the Rope.
Digital Brain Training games: BrainHQ, Elevate, Luminosity.
Memory games: Memory Match, Simon.
Trivia games: Jeopardy!, Trivia Crack, Trivial Pursuit.
Crossword puzzles: plenty to choose from.
