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For years, people have made the mistake in believing they can keep their mind sharp by merely doing crossword puzzles (although recently, Sudoku seems to have taken its place). True cognitive fitness, however, stems from immersing your mind in a wide variety of challenges and puzzle types. Here at www.smart-kit.com, you have the chance to stimulate and exercise not just one- but many areas of your brain with a great collection of puzzles and brain teasers, brain games, trivia quizzes, and jigsaw puzzles.

lay Educational Games, Solve Problems & Puzzles! At The Problem Site, you can play educational games and daily puzzles, find interesting reference pages, and engage in fun problem solving activities. There are word games, math games, math problems, mystery quests, and many other free educational resources.

Brain Based learning games

"MORE THAN 800 BOOKS STRONG - IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND CHINESE! MightyBook is a powerhouse of learning that's helping kids around the world read and speak English. With more than 800 animated stories, songs, games and puzzles - plus lesson plans and online quizzes -- MightyBook is one of the best values in education. "

Unless otherwise noted all games are created by GamesfortheBrain.com (Philipp Lenssen). All pages licensed under Creative Commons. Contact philipp.lenssen@gmail.com for more information. If you have feedback on games, or ideas for new ones, please let me know! (Here's my blog, by the way.)

Fun Physics based puzzle game...Debbie Wrobel

A fun online physics puzzle game

Build a virtual apartment and put it on your website. Work with friends to make a huge MMORPG. Share your puzzle game with friends. The vision: to enable you build anything, and play everything, from anywhere.

Mike Archer is a paleontologist most known for his involvement in the Riversleigh fossil site in Queensland where over 40,000 specimens of 300 species were derived. Needless to say, it provided a big chunk of the puzzle of Australian fauna history. Apart from his active participation in fossil exploration, Mike is also the lead scientist of the Lazarus Project and has headed an experiment to bring back the extinct Thylacine, or what we now know as the Tasmanian Tiger. His finds have given him numerous accolades including Fellowship in prestigious organizations and becoming a Member of the Order of Australia. To read more about Mike Archer visit www.thextraordinary.org

Free coloring book, online coloring games for kids

This applet creates a 'magnetic poetry' board upon which the user may shift around the words the webpage designer has listed (mouse click and drag a word to move it). Furthermore, the user may modify an existing 'magnet' by SHIFT-clicking on it. Alternately, new magnets may be created by SHIFT-clicking in vacant area of the applet (then type what new letters you want on the magnet piece).