Day 223: Mind games

It’s Games and Puzzles Day!

Today’s Activity: Try some games that work your brain.

Here are several options that may help keep your cognitive skills sharp.

Are games really good at keeping you mentally fit? There’s some evidence of benefits, but a variety of activities is key.

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Catch up on earlier Games and Puzzles days:

• Hunt for a geocache

• Balderdash!

• Make some tangrams

• Try a variation on Boggle

• Learn a new language

• Play solitaire with real cards

• Clueless Crosswords

• Play Just a Minute

• Really Bad Chess

• Blaseball

• Sort an Only Connect-style wall

• Play Skribbl

• I’m the banana!

• Solve an acrostic

• Play a road trip game

• Learn to navigate the great outdoors

• Follow mystery puzzles across the web

• Attempt some very hard food-themed puzzles

• Try Haxball

• Play a board game online

• Solve a nonogram

• Hide something in your place for the next residents to find

• Play a game with friends (virtually)

• Invent your own sport

• Write a mad lib

• Solve some tricky puzzle sets

• Exchange coded messages

• Play some great old MS-DOS games on the Internet Archive

• Create an indoor scavenger hunt

• Design a board game

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Got ideas for things to do with the stuff you already have in your house? We’d love to hear your suggestions.

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