Stay sharp

Give your brain a workout with these fun puzzles.

1 SCRAMBLER

To test your brain’s flexibility, try to make as many words out of the following as you can. Can you find more than 15 per word?

2 ZIGGURAT

Work on your vocabulary recall with this stacked puzzle. Begin by determining the top word according to the provided definition. Then go down a level and add one letter to the word above and rearrange the letters to form a new word. Repeat the

process until you reach the bottom.

3 VISUALIZE THIS

There are four overlapping circles below. In how many of them does A occur? In how many does B occur? C? D?

4 NUMBER BLOCK

Boost your math and spatial thinking skills with this number cube. The columns and the rows should add up to the totals at the bottom and the right. The missing numbers are no greater than 8.

5 MIND TWISTER

Test your logic and vocabulary skills with this riddle: It can be measured on scales but is not a substance. It is blind but is not a living being. What is it?

6 SLUETHING SKILLS

Read the facts, then use your reasoning

skills to figure out who did what: Four friends decided to enroll in four separate activities: ballet, fencing, judo and opera. Sam didn’t take ballet or judo. Neither did Hanna nor Amy enrolled in ballet. Either Laura or Amy took opera. Which course

did each one take?

7 WORD SEARCH

Find the words listed below hidden in the grid. The words can be read forward, backward, up, down or diagonally, and they occasionally share letters.