I would disagree, your brain does a lot of pattern-matching, solving a jigsaw actually is brain intensive, but it’s using brain skills that we don’t usually associate with thinking, even though it definitely is.
Sorry my bad. In my language (french) the word “puzzle” is exclusively used for jigsaw puzzle, for some reason when reading your comment my brain saw jigsaw :-D
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I never considered that a puzzle, it just takes some time to do but it doesn’t require any thinking
I would disagree, your brain does a lot of pattern-matching, solving a jigsaw actually is brain intensive, but it’s using brain skills that we don’t usually associate with thinking, even though it definitely is.
I’m talking about connect the dots
You ‘solved’ the random connect-the-dots that came up first when I searched for one to make my point, well done
Sorry my bad. In my language (french) the word “puzzle” is exclusively used for jigsaw puzzle, for some reason when reading your comment my brain saw jigsaw :-D
I understand, it’s the same in Hebrew
Bro, it took me forever to find 1.
Trick is you don’t have to. Just start at any number and either go up or down, then go back and do the other direction when you finish the first one.