Exercise Your Brain!

Education is becoming more demanding these days, and kids no longer have to sit for hours reading and studying to expand their minds. Educational games can be huge tools for learning. As such, they need to do some mental exercises on a regular basis. Exercising the brain does not only make a kid’s mind sharper and stronger; it also rejuvenates the mind by providing essential recreation and relaxation. Keeping the mind sharp at a young age can be a major prevention of cognitive deterioration as it ages. There are many games and activities on the Internet that offer great mental exercise for kids, and these are some of the best.

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Riddle Me This

• Riddles for Kids: List of fun riddles for kids.
• Humorous Riddles: Hilarious riddles from a humor therapist.
• Classic Riddles: Lots of classic riddles for children of all ages.
• Easy Riddles: Easy riddles for younger children.
• Bird Riddles: A great selection of bird riddles for kids.
• All Sorts of Riddles: One of the largest collections of riddles on the Internet.
• Food Riddles: Excellent riddles that revolve around food and nutrition.
• Energy Riddles: Energy-related riddles for older kids.
• Science Mystery Riddles: A number of challenging riddles for solving science mysteries.
• Tough Riddles: Riddles that require kids to think hard.

Puzzling Puzzles

• Marilee’s Word Puzzles: Fun and educational word puzzles for grade 1-3 students.
• Crossword Puzzles: This website contains many different kinds of crossword puzzles.
• Word Search Puzzles: Extensive selection of word search puzzles.
• Words in a Word: An interesting game that requires players to use alphabets in a word to form other words.
• Word Puzzle Worksheets: Word puzzles covering many different subjects.
• Free Picture Puzzles: A large collection of free picture puzzles.
• Jigsaw Puzzles: A website that features thousands of jigsaw puzzles.
• Fun Picture Puzzles: Many different types of picture puzzles to test deduction skills.
• Hidden Pictures: A number of interesting hidden picture puzzles.
• More Picture Puzzles: Form pictures in jigsaw, block, or brick pattern.
• Number Puzzles: Lots of number puzzles that test math skills.
• Math Puzzles: List of math puzzles with varying levels of difficulty.
• Educational Number Puzzles: Collection of number puzzles for elementary and high school students.
• Web Sudoku: Play sudoku for free in this website.
• Challenging Number Puzzles: Number puzzles for improving problem solving skills.

Delusion Illusion

• Optical Illusions: A huge collection of optical illusion pictures.
• Eluzions Illusions: This website contains images of many different types of optical illusions, ranging from ambiguous optical illusions to motion illusions.
• Visual Phenomena and Illusions: Article that explains optical illusions and a list of amazing optical illusion pictures.
• Images of Optical Illusions: Lots of optical illusion images for viewing in this site.
• Optical Illusion Galleries: More than 40 galleries of optical illusion pictures.
• Color Cube: A wide array of optical illusion images, including blind spots, dithering progression, shape contrast, and others.
• Optical Illusion Archive: An archive of optical illusion pictures that provide great challenge for the mind.
• Grand Illusions: This website contains several pages of intriguing optical illusion images.
• Optical Illusions, Curiosities, and Visual Effects: Great selection of optical illusion photos and pictures, with instructions and explanations.
• Mind Fake: One of the largest collections of optical illusion pictures on the Internet.

Brain Teasers and Quizzes

• Brain Teasers, Puzzles, and Riddles: Hundreds of brain teasers, riddles, and puzzles from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
• Braingle: Brain teasers and other interesting activities for exercising the mind.
• Logic Problems: Collection of brain teasers submitted by students of Woodlands Junior School.
• The Quiz Hub: A website that offers online interactive education through quizzes, puzzles, and games.
• Quizzes for Kids: Lots of challenging quizzes for children aged 6 to 12.

Other Fun Ways to Think

• Brain Boosters: Entertaining and educational activities and games from Discovery Education.
• Brain Quest: Players have to answer as many questions as they can in 2 minutes.
• Mysteries for Kids: Kids can improve their thinking skills by solving various mysteries in this site.
• Knossos Games: A number of games that can test a wide range of mental skills.
• Scholastic Games: Selection of great games that provide good mental exercise.
• Fun Brain: A website that offers many different types of educational games and interactive activities for kids.
• Learning Games: Children can improve their mental skills while having fun in this website.
• Fun School: An online educational site that has many games and activities that can promote creativity and logical thinking.
• Knowledge Adventure: Educational games for preschoolers and grade 1 and 2 students.
• Prongo: Brain teasers, quizzes, puzzles, and games that enhance the mind.

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