January 29 is National Puzzle Day!
National Puzzle Day is celebrated every year on January 29. This year, it lands on a Monday. National Puzzle Day aims to spread awareness about the benefits of puzzles for the brain, the mind, and social skills. It has been found by studies that when we work our brains on solving a jigsaw puzzle, both sides of the brain are utilized, and devoting a fixed amount of time to solving puzzles, helps to improve cognitive function, problem-solving skills, and memory.
Celebrate National Puzzle Day by taking a brain break! Browse our collection of puzzles in the stacks. Note: our puzzle collection has moved. It is now located by the shelves next to the Graphic Medicine collection. (While you're there, check it out. Borrow a book or two :D)
You can also check out these websites for free puzzles and Sudoku!
JigsawPlanet - free online jigsaw puzzles
TheJigsawPuzzles.com - free online jigsaw puzzles
Sudoku - easy, medium, and challenging Sudoku puzzles
Related articles:
Fissler, P., Küster, O. C., Loy, L. S., Laptinskaya, D., Rosenfelder, M. J., von Arnim, C. A. F., & Kolassa, I. T. (2017). Jigsaw Puzzles As Cognitive Enrichment (PACE) - the effect of solving jigsaw puzzles on global visuospatial cognition in adults 50 years of age and older: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 18(1), 415. https://doi-org.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/10.1186/s13063-017-2151-9
Fissler, P., Küster, O. C., Laptinskaya, D., Loy, L. S., von Arnim, C. A. F., & Kolassa, I. T. (2018). Jigsaw Puzzling Taps Multiple Cognitive Abilities and Is a Potential Protective Factor for Cognitive Aging. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 10, 299. https://doi-org.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00299
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