Do a puzzle

Games and brainteasers are well known for providing mental perks, but Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto anthropology professor and brain-game creator, says the best ones are those that give you that ‘Eureka!’ moment. ‘When you think I get it! or I see it!, imagination and reasoning come together,’ he says. Suddenly, your brain is expanding to function in a way it wasn’t before you solved the riddle.➺