Working on puzzles, be it a word search, sodoku, crossword or jigsaw, you are exercising your brain to stay mentally sharp! Not only this, "That’s what a huge bit of the cortex is primed to do — to spot [patterns] — and once we spot them we can assimilate them into our pyramid of knowledge and build more layers of strategy, and knowing how to do that makes us incredibly successful at controlling the world". – Daniel Bor, Neuroscientist. (https://loom.ly/YksjMyQ)