Tackling word puzzles is a great tactic to keep your mind in tip-top
shape! Studies show that one way to be sure your brain stays at its
best is to learn new things regularly, creating new neural connections.
This book offers a fun way to do just that, with a variety of word
puzzles that require solvers to reorient their perspective and think
differently about language. One-third of the book features Split
Decisions, a popular puzzle type that author Fred Piscop contributes
regularly to the New York Times. Throughout the rest is a mix of other
puzzles: Bits & Pieces (in which solvers answer clues using and reusing
blocks of letters), Clueless Crosswords (featuring grids partly filled
in so that there is only one possible way to complete them), Double
Exposure (testing pattern recognition in two different ways), Mixagrams
(where words are interwoven in a simple yet confounding way), and Two by
Two (in which each grid contains only two consonants... but you have to
figure out which).