This is the eleventh volume in the Brains Need Gyms series.One way to keep your brain active is to constantly challenge it with simple intellectual exercises; word games are a great example of these! This book is filled with word puzzles that form the basis of solving crosswords. You will look at an incomplete word, and your brain will go to work recognizing patterns, and you will solve each problem.In every puzzle in this book, you will be given a fragment of a word, and will be required to guess the complete word. Hints and answers are both provided, in case you're stuck. Go ahead, give your brain a workout!All the benefits of a physical workout, but for your mindAfter a good long workout at the gym, you feel good. Both your body and your mind are refreshed, and even through your tiredness you are happy. The process in the Brains Need Gyms series is very similar: you will go through many difficult puzzles, and flex your mental muscles till you are exhausted. However, the aftermath is positive - you will be able to go back to your other tasks mentally refreshed, and armed with many new logic tools to attack the questions that your daily life throws at you. Go on, gift your brain the gym subscription it's always deserved! At the very least, it's far cheaper than a physical gym subscription, to say nothing of a personal trainer.You will acquire skills that help you get good at other word games that are more mainstreamIf you have always wanted to get better at solving crosswords, this book provides a good way to acquire a formative skill. This book is filled with word puzzles that form the basis of solving crosswords. You will look at an incomplete word, and your brain will go to work recognizing patterns, and you will solve each problem.Creativity boosts, enforced by needing to look at each question in a different wayVery few problems in this book will yield to a straightforward stare-at-it-till-the-answer-manifests-itself-in-front-of-your-eyes technique. Sure, the first few questions in the first few chapters might be solved by this approach, but it will rapidly become apparent to you that you need to invent new ways to look at each problem, so that your brain can acquire the lateral perspective needed to hit the correct answer on the head every time the book throws a fresh challenge at it. So, whether you're looking at interesting letter sequence patterns in the first 5 letters of a word that you have to guess, and ignoring the last few letters temporarily, or filling in placeholder letters in position 2 and 4 (the crucial letters to fill), you will have your hands full with coming up with unique solutions in real time to difficult questions. The feeling of accomplishment when you solve that pesky problem that's been filling your head (and distracting you from real life) for half an hour or longer cannot be understated; it is akin to the pure joy that comes from finally getting rid of a mosquito.