Puzzle Games - Exercise for Your Brain

Figuring out puzzles is a great way to spend your spare time. In addition to sharpening your mind, puzzles help you think differently. Usually solving puzzles is more about logical reasoning. You require an open mind and thinking for yourself that "Maybe this will work out".

Traditional pen and paper puzzles in newspapers can take hours and sometimes even days to solve. But internet has come to the rescue of the puzzle addicts. If you are a puzzle addict then you can play puzzle games online and solve the puzzles in a few minutes and sometimes even seconds.

Puzzle games are basically a set of puzzles ranging in difficulty and you need to solve them in a specific sequence. Online puzzle games are developed specifically to appeal to a wide range of audience. Even those who are not so addicted to puzzles will enjoy playing these games.

Gaming websites feature a variety of puzzle games and each game aims to exercise different area of your brain. Most puzzles can be solved within one to five minutes. The puzzles are aimed to sharpen your knowledge in different areas like common sense, general knowledge, lateral thinking, basic knowledge of English, Maths and Computers etc. Solving puzzles online has another advantage - there is a clue or a peek button to help you in times when you get stuck.

To play puzzle games you need a computer and internet access. There are many free puzzle games sites from where you can download the game and play it without being connected to the internet.

Some of the popular puzzle games are sudoku, kakuro, pathfinder puzzles, Neutral Riddle, jigsaw puzzles and Notpron. Lots of new online puzzles are coming up with new ways to trick players. You can enjoy these puzzles with your family. So, if you thought solving puzzles was all about IQ testing then you were wrong.