Train Your Brain: Brain Teasers to Sharpen Your Mind
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Train Your Brain - Puzzler Media
Workouts 1-190
WORKOUT 1
e9781616081379_i0002.jpgWordsearch
How quickly can you find the five themed words in each grid?
CAKES
e9781616081379_i0003.jpgFRUIT
e9781616081379_i0004.jpgSplits
e9781616081379_i0005.jpgCan you rearrange each of these sets of letter blocks into a word?
RY SCO DI VE
RAT TO ED LE
OR LIC IT SO
TU LO DE NGI
ER WH HEV IC
e9781616081379_i0006.jpge9781616081379_i0007.jpgCell Blocks
Fill the grid by drawing blocks along the gridlines. Each block must be square or rectangular and must contain the number of squares indicated by the digit inside it. Each block must contain only one digit.
WORKOUT 2
e9781616081379_i0008.jpgSudoku
Place a number in each empty square so that each row, each column and each 2x2 block contains all the numbers from 1-4.
e9781616081379_i0009.jpge9781616081379_i0010.jpgAdd Up
If the number in each circle is the sum of the two below it, how quickly can you figure out the top number? Try this one in your head, before writing anything down.
e9781616081379_i0011.jpgWORKOUT 3
e9781616081379_i0012.jpge9781616081379_i0013.jpgCodeword
Can you crack the code and fill in the crossword grid? Each letter of the alphabet makes at least one appearance in the grid, and is represented by the same number wherever it appears. The four letters we’ve decoded should help you to identify other letters and words in the grid.
e9781616081379_i0014.jpgSpot the Sum
In each of these boxes, one of the numbers is the sum of two others. Can you spot the sum?
e9781616081379_i0015.jpgWORKOUT 4
Memory Jog
Spend two minutes memorising this list of twenty words, then see how many of them you can recall on a separate piece of paper in another two minutes.
COURAGE
DRILL
HATSTAND
MANNERS
PARTICULAR
BLUE
SHARPEN
SITCOM
PLASTER
CONTINUE
BLITHELY
WAGON
TEAPOT
PANTOMIME
CELLAR
ANTIQUES
MESH
PURPOSE
SPILL
FORTUNE
Pyramid
e9781616081379_i0016.jpgEach answer except the first uses all the letters – usually in a different order – from the previous answer plus one extra letter.
Personal pronoun
That thing
Neckwear
Row of seats
Sluggish
Eye’s light-sensitive membrane
Piece of ground for military use
Hold someone back from action
Apprehending
e9781616081379_i0017.jpgWORKOUT 5
Futoshiki
e9781616081379_i0018.jpgFill the blank squares so that each row and column contains all the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Use the given numbers and the symbols that tell you if the number in the square is larger (>) or smaller (<) than the number next to it.
e9781616081379_i0019.jpgInitials
e9781616081379_i0020.jpgIf ITHOTN (Oscar-winning film) is IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, what do these initials represent?
WICW (George Formby song)
TBM (Nursery rhyme)
TLOTR (Film title)
TLTWATW (Children’s novel)
HC (Madonna album)
Shikaku
e9781616081379_i0021.jpgDivide the Shikaku grid into squares and rectangles, each shape containing a single number that describes exactly how many boxes there are inside it.
e9781616081379_i0022.jpgWORKOUT 6
Fitword
When all of the listed words have been placed correctly in the grid, which one is left over?
e9781616081379_i0023.jpg3 letters
Cud
Ego
Emu
Gym
Hit
Jaw
e9781616081379_i0024.jpgSow
Wax
Web
4 letters
Bomb
Defy
Limp
Luck
Nest
Pair
Sawn
Zany
5 letters
Annoy
Aorta
Aroma
Media
Merit
Minus
6 letters
Obtain
Rotund
e9781616081379_i0025.jpgSix Pack
Can you place digits in the empty triangles, so that the numbers in each hexagon add up to 25? Only single digits between 1 and 9 can be used, and no two numbers in any hexagon may be the same.
e9781616081379_i0026.jpge9781616081379_i0027.jpgWORKOUT 7
Pathfinder
e9781616081379_i0028.jpgBeginning with JUDGES, and moving up, down, left or right, one letter at a time, can you trace a path of seventeen Old Testament books?
e9781616081379_i0029.jpgNumber Jig
e9781616081379_i0030.jpgWhich one of the listed numbers won’t fit in each of these mini grids?
256
324
346
454
514
e9781616081379_i0031.jpg469
496
619
691
914
e9781616081379_i0032.jpg2132
2223
2310
3131
3210
e9781616081379_i0033.jpgCopycats
e9781616081379_i0034.jpgChoose the answer that best copies the pattern.
READ is to WRITE as LISTEN is to: Ear • Mime • Look • Speak • Hear
DOG is to KENNEL as SQUIRREL is to: Nest • Holt • Tree • Drey • Hole
JAM is to JAR as TEA is to: Cup • Pot • Caddy • Can • Urn
MILE is to MOLE as MOLE is to: Male • More • Mule • Sole • Mire
WORKOUT 8
Dominoes
e9781616081379_i0035.jpgSolve the clues then write the six-letter answers into the dominoes. You must work out whether each word fits in clockwise or anticlockwise, so that the connecting letters of the dominoes all match up.
Princess ___, the late Duchess of Kent
___ Eccleston, Formula 1 boss
___ Steptoe, Harold’s father
Mother ___, Calcutta nun
King ___, Elvis song and movie
___ Schwarzenegger, film star and Governor of California
e9781616081379_i0036.jpgSudoku
e9781616081379_i0037.jpgUse your powers of reasoning to place numbers in the grid, so that each row, each column and each 3x3 block contains the numbers 1-9.
e9781616081379_i0038.jpgCodewords
e9781616081379_i0039.jpgIf HERD is 1234 and ARMY is 5367 , how quickly can you work out these collective nouns? You should identify more letters as you go along.
8 1 5 3 6
8 3 5 9 1
9 10 5 3 6
6 11 3 4 2 3
12 3 13 4 2
WORKOUT 9
Mini Fit
e9781616081379_i0040.jpgWhich one of the listed words won’t fit in each of these mini grids?
e9781616081379_i0041.jpgWordsearch
e9781616081379_i0042.jpgHidden in this wordsearch grid are eighteen musical instruments.
e9781616081379_i0043.jpgScramble
e9781616081379_i0044.jpgWhat EU capital cities can be made from each of these sets of scrambled letters?
MORE
PAIRS
HASTEN
NO GAP HENCE
CHERUB SAT
PUB DATES
MADE SMART
STAB A RIVAL
WORKOUT 10
Small Change
e9781616081379_i0045.jpgCan you change one letter of each of these words to make five new words with a common theme?
LORD • LOVER • FLAT • SENT • NEXUS
HOSE • DAIRY • LILT • IRKS • PALSY
FOLD • SALVER • TIC • ICON • LEAF
CABLE • CHAIN • DUSK • CREST • PRESSER
Opposites Attract
e9781616081379_i0046.jpgCan you sort each set of letter blocks into two words with opposite meanings?
LL TY FU EMP
ART FI SH NI ST
LE DIF SI CU FI MP LT
GUE ISE PR VA EC
Kakuro
e9781616081379_i0047.jpgSimple addition and a bit of logical thinking will solve this one. You must write a digit in each white square so that the digits in each across section add up to the total in the triangle to the left, and the digits in each column add up to the total in the triangle above. 1-9 are the only digits to use and, although you may find a digit repeated in a row, it must not be repeated in the same section. We’ve solved one section for you.
e9781616081379_i0048.jpgWORKOUT 11
Arroword
e9781616081379_i0049.jpgJust follow the arrows to write your answers in the