The surprising benefits of puzzle solving for adults
Oh, puzzles, you have to love them! Small, large, puzzles for children, for adults, puzzles related to your favorite movie/game. You must have solved some of these jigsaw puzzles during your lifetime.
Remember when you were a kid and your parents came home with a gift for you. You thought it was a toy, but it was a puzzle. Well, your parents have certainly not bought you a puzzle to just play. They are much more than a game. Puzzles are just a fun way to help your child develop its motor and cognitive skills. Pretty cool, is not it?
But did you notice, that today’s children play more video games on smartphones and tablets, while adults are the ones who buy and solve puzzles? Well, adults who solve puzzles have many advantages over those who do not.
If you’re curious to find out the benefits of puzzle solving for adults, check the list we prepared for you.
- Improve your memory!
Are you of those who drink coffee, eat berries, and doing exercises to improve memory? If so, then this idea will appeal to you. Try a new way to improve memory. Solve the puzzle! Solving puzzles is increasing our mental speed and short-term memory by remembering colors, shapes, and details and then helps us to think where is the right place for our piece. Crossword puzzles are one of the best cognitive exercises, as well as Jigsaw puzzles. Choose the best for you!
2. Improve your problem-solving skills.
Problem-solving skills are very important in our life. Having these skills means you are able to identify the problem and find the best solution for it. If you train your brain by solving puzzles you can improve these skills. When you solve puzzles, you are forced to find several alternative solutions and look in advance for errors. This can be very useful at work, you agree?
3. Enrich your vocabulary.
Have you been thinking of enriching your vocabulary? Reading will certainly help you in this, but also solving puzzles. Puzzles can improve your language and spelling skills and help you learn new words. You can also learn new foreign words by solving puzzles. It’s never too late to learn a new language. Take advantage of the puzzle to get more educated.
4. Raise your IQ?
Have you done an IQ test? Suppose you might be dissatisfied with the result and you would like to change it. Well, puzzles are a great way to do that. This can not happen overnight, but in time it’s quite possible. Solving puzzles improves our memory and reasoning. If we look at the results of the research from the University of Michigan, adults can raise their IQ by 4 points after solving puzzles for 25 daily.
5. Avoid diseases like Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Did you know that puzzles can help prevent and delay some diseases? The study from the Journal of Neuroscience has shown that completing crossword puzzles is stimulating the patient’s mind which can help prevent/delay Alzheimer’s disease in senior citizens. Activities like solving puzzles can reduce the amount of brain cell damage of patients with this disease. If a patient is solving puzzles, that activity helps the growth of new healthy nerve cells. But this does not mean that you should solve puzzles only if you are suffering from these diseases. Solve puzzles for prevention and train your brain in time!
6. Reduce stress and increase positive energy.
Solving puzzles is a great weapon against stress and negative energy! When you solve puzzles your brain increases the production of dopamine. Dopamine represents one of the brain’s neurotransmitters, that helps regulate mood, motivation, attention, memory, positive thinking and feeling of optimism. So, each time you put the piece of a puzzle in the right place, you release dopamine. A Feeling of happiness and optimism creates positive energy, reduces stress, improves concentration. Solving puzzles is definitely the best way to relax and cheer yourself up!
7. Increase productivity at work.
Puzzle solving can bring many benefits that will positively affect your productivity at work. Puzzles that contain small parts require attention to detail. With these puzzles, you are training your eyes to see the smallest details. This ability can help us in jobs requiring precision and orientation to detail. Solving puzzles in the first place improves the concentration that is important to us at work. If you are at college, this can also be of great help to you to concentrate on learning. Many companies today have room for relaxation and socializing that contain puzzles. Puzzles are a great way to relax your brain and get closer to colleagues at work. You will certainly improve your cooperation.
What are you waiting for, hurry and get your puzzles!
Well, now that you’ve discovered the surprising benefits of puzzle solving for adults, are you tempted to buy one? We hope that you decide to purchase a puzzle and spend your spare time doing something fun and educational! And of course, now you have another cool idea for a gift for your friends who will surely delight them.
We recommend W&P Design Pop Art 500-Piece Puzzle which was included in the Winter 2017 edition brēō box
