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Toys & Learning
The beneficial role of toys and games in your child's development are discussed in the following articles:
What are Toys and Games doing in a Library?
What Skills are Being Promoted When a Child is Having Fun Playing a Game?
The Benefit of Puzzles
What are Toys and Games Doing in a Library?
Playing games at any age has the potential to be a lot of fun and for children in particular there can be some real benefits. Playing games can be a fun and motivating way to learn and reinforce skills, can provide an opportunity for all the family to play together or t... The rec.puzzles archive
The rec.puzzles archive offers many classic mind-benders, categorized by subject area. Among the two dozen subject areas you'll find are analogies, cryptograms, language puzzles, logic puzzles, problems of probability, riddles, and trivia puzzles. You might want to preview this site, however. Students will love it, but some of the oldies are a little bloody. Three sample puzzles appear below.
6. Bear ... Computer puzzle game is a genre of computer games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles involved can involve logic, strategy, pattern recognition, sequence solving, word completion or, in some cases, just pure luck.
Before there ever were video games (as we would recognise them) there were jigsaw puzzles and the Rubik's Cube, today's puzzle game forefathers. The genre can be difficult to describe: the gameplay is usually abstract (but not always) often involving arranging geometric shapes to fulfil some goal or constraint. Oft... A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction.
This branch was pioneered by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his book The Game of Symbolic Logic he introduced a game to solve problems such as
some games are fun
every puzzle is a game
Are all puzzles fun? Not Necessarily.
Puzzles like this, where we are given a list of premises and asked what can be deduced from them, are known as "syllogisms". Of course, this example is trivial. Dodgson goes on to construct much more complex puzzles consisting of ... A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc.
Many puzzles stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems (see packing problems and tour puzzles). Others, like chess problems, are derived from board games. Others again have been devised for the sole purpose of being brain teasers.
The history of puzzles goes back many thousand years, Tangram being one of the earliest and still one of the most popular puzzles. In certain temples of Japan monks used to write mathematical puzzles on temple walls.
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