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Jigsaw Puzzles For All Ages: Twists, Themes, Sound Effects

Jigsaw puzzlers found their happy place, and their people, during the pandemic. Puzzling was already a thing, but soon more groups formed on social media.

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Barely Surviving A Crossword Puzzle Tournament

magine sitting in a crowded room with 120 people doing something so torturous, so grueling, so excruciating, that you start to question your sanity.

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How To Delay Alzheimer’s Dementia Up To 5 Years

Keeping your brain active in old age has always been a smart idea, but a new study suggests that reading, writing letters and playing card games or puzzles in later life may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s dementia by up to five years.

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Games, crafts, other activities may preserve aging brain

Even in your 70s and beyond, simple activities including web-surfing, playing games like bridge and socializing can stave off mental decline, new research says.

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