12 Benefits of Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults
Playing is important for children as well as for adults. And puzzles are no exception! There are many studies showing the mental benefits of puzzles in children. In this article, we are going one step further to discuss the advantages of puzzles for adults.
So, without further ado, let’s begin!
1. Puzzles Promote Concentration and Relaxation
By working on a puzzle, we concentrate on what we are doing and we distance ourselves from reality. This is why many adults’ associate puzzles with a time when they can almost “forget everything”.
For some, puzzles help them relax, for others, not so much. We therefore consider puzzles as one of the many options, such as crosswords, coloring, knitting, Sudoku puzzles, etc., that you can experiment with to find your stress-buster hobby!
2. Stimulate Neurons
Solving puzzles can be a type of training for our brain. We make our cognitive mind work by stimulating different areas. Puzzles are one effective way to reduce the drop in our cognitive faculties.
Numerous studies show that mind games are good for both children’s and adult brains. Also, when we really focus on a single activity, we sometimes do another type of "cleaning" in our head. Suddenly we find, without really realizing it, new solutions to a problem.
3. Sharpen Your Sense of Observation
To succeed in solving a puzzle, you have to be able to observe the pieces and their particular shapes. With children, we encourage them to become little "detectives" when they go in search of a particular piece. Children understand that they need to collect clues to complete the puzzle. In adults, too, puzzles allow us to work on our perception: we must form a mental image.
4. A Great Way to Exercise Patience
Puzzles really test our patience while forcing us to be persistent as it’s virtually impossible to be quick and expeditious when solving them! The more pieces there are, the longer and more difficult it is to complete the puzzle. Puzzles help you to become more patient.
As a bonus, puzzles also teach us to not give up too quickly and easily. We also sometimes need to remind ourselves that everything is not instantaneous in life.
5. An Educational Tool for Learning
Puzzles are a great educational tool. They are remarkable learning tools that allow you to learn in a truly physiological way. On the one hand, there are puzzles that can help you with geography, while there are others which can help you learn new shapes or improve your math!
6. A Great Way to Observe, Analyze & Anticipate
Perceiving the shapes and colors of a built-in toy, analyzing the path of a piece in a labyrinth, placing a series of puzzles, etc. All these activities can help improve your observation skills to a whole new level. They also allow us to anticipate, to think by asking ourselves, “If I do such and such an action, what will happen?".
7. Develop Memory
When a child or an adult solves a puzzle where you have to perform various actions such as assembling, disassembling or unraveling, you develop a better memory in order to remember the actions to be performed. It is even an activity that is offered to the elderly who are prone to memory problems. Puzzles are indeed an excellent brain stimulant!
8. Promote concentration and dexterity
Concentration is yet another benefit developed by puzzles. To get to the end of this activity, one needs to focus their full attention on the task at hand. Regarding dexterity, this skill is in great demand, as some games require fine motor skills and coordination.
9. Improve Hand-Eye Coordination
If you’ve ever taken puzzle-solving seriously, you already know what we’re talking about. Puzzles require a keen sense of coordination between your mind and your body, and in that process, they end up improving it to a great extent.
10. Reinforce Self-Confidence
Seeing your puzzle taking its shape is very rewarding. The results are measurable and visible immediately. It is a source of pride to go after something and successfully accomplish it. When you feel yourself progressing, the brain secretes dopamine, the hormone of happiness. This happiness helps you become more self-confident in your life.
11. Develop Team Spirit
When the whole family unites to solve a puzzle, everyone supports each other. It is a source of collective joy that lets everyone feel useful as you succeed in the game together. A favorable outcome of this activity is the development of team spirit in each and every member of the family.
12. Make You Smarter
Neurological research has shown that puzzle solving significantly improves brain, visual and spatial skills, such as perception, flexibility, working memory, speed, etc. With age, neural connections tend to stiffen. Solving puzzles stimulates plasticity.
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Something about how loudly Edwin says Charles' name in this scene has been driving me insane and I think I've finally figured out why.
When Charles finds Edwin in hell, Edwin is rolled into a little ball of misery, covered in blood and quietly sobbing. It's probably a position he's developed over decades, making himself as small as possible, being as quiet as possible, trying to take up as little space as possible. He's almost pretending he doesn't exist in order to stretch out the moments before the spider finds him and the loop starts again.
And then Charles says his name and Edwin looks up and sees Charles, and it's like all of his defenses just vanish. He doesn't whisper Charles' name, he says it, loudly, as if he has completely forgotten where he is and that they need to be quiet. He gets up, unfurls his limbs, slowly standing up to his full height, taking up space again. Every instinct in his body should tell him to stay hidden and as invisible and silent as possible, but Charles has just smiled at him, and Edwin speaks again, asking "Is that you?" and letting out a shaky breath of relief.
He is completely vulnerable and exposed now, like Charles' arrival has made him completely forget that they are in hell and that he could be ripped apart by a spider doll demon at any moment. All the defences he has built up over literal decades just completely crumble as soon as he hears Charles' voice.
And then the spider comes and rips him away, and I don’t think it would have done (at least not yet), had Edwin not alerted it to his presence like that. I think that’s why this moment wouldn’t let go of me, because I always thought it shouldn’t be this easy for Edwin to abandon a survival tactic he has developed over decades of torture. But all it takes is Charles being there, and Edwin forgets everything else.
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I just finished watching Glass Onion for the third time so now you get to hear my rant about it but the details are out of order in the timeline because I’m lazy
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
When Miles lifts the gun off of Duke, we can actually see it pre-Blanc explaining it. The scene where the two hug you can see Miles take the gun and slip it into the back of his jeans.
Following the gun thing, we, the viewers actually SEE the gun itself (pre-Blanc’s explanation) when Miles goes back to the mini bar to put it in the ice bucket. Although it’s kind of hard to see it’s very clearly a gun but our eyes manipulate our minds into thinking it’s a drink because it is indeed a minibar.
They show how Miles places the drink in Dukes hand pre Blanc’s explanation but quickly distract us with the groups dynamic and Birdie.
Phillip is skeptical of Helen when she asks for Blanc, we can assume that he and Blanc have had negative run ins with people from jobs. Also Phillip might be judging Helen’s character, who she is, because he doesn’t want to put Blanc into a situation where he’s in true danger. He’s a detective not Batman.
Birdies mask at the beginning of the movie at the boat is just fucking chains across her face in diamond pattern.
Blanc doesn’t have a gag reflex when the dude in the white suit puts Miles “covid vax” down his throat. (Bc he’s 🏳️🌈)
Andi, when she first comes up with the idea for Alpha and starts working with Miles, is wearing dark colors. The dark blue pinstripe suit, her completely black ensamble when we see her at the Glass Onion (the bar). But when she’s challenging Miles she’s wearing both Black and white. At the trial she’s wearing a light almost off white suit. Why is this important? Because what color is Helen wearing when she shuts miles down? White. The color white is, in itself, a color that symbolizes Miles downfall.
Connecting back to the white idea, Whiskey is wearing all white (her bathing suit) when she reveals crucial information about Miles giving her the Taurus necklace for her birthday. (Which leads to his downfall when Blanc puts 2+2 together that he killed Andi)
“Im really bad at dumb things” -Blanc. The reason he didn’t catch on to what was going on with Miles earlier was because Miles is stupid. Miles is so dumb that he fucking befuddled Blanc because Miles is so stupid.
Blanc isn’t uncomfortable about his arousal around Birdie when she put her legs up on him while Miles talks about being ‘Disrupters’. He’s uncomfortable because he’s GAY and has a BOYFRIEND/HUSBAND.
There’s a bunch of owls and small trinkets of birds in Birdies room.
The movie, at the very beginning, with Miles mystery invitation box thing hints at where the envelope is hidden. The fibonacci sequence on the box has the center blocked out in black, where we will later see in the film is red which is where Miles is hiding the envelope. For fucks sake the movie even goes out of its way, with Dukes mother, to point out the sequence. (“The first one’s a fibonacci sequence” -Dukes mom).
During the dinner Whiskey is wearing the same golden chain body jewelry that Birdie was wearing earlier at the pool. So this could mean two things: 1. They have the same chain and 2. Whiskey borrowed the chain from Birdie.
Now connecting to my first point about the chain jewelry above. The reason why Miles likes Whiskey, despite her sleeping with him for the sake of Dukes channel, is because Whiskey reminds him of younger Birdie. Birdie even talks to Peg about how dazzled and amazed Miles was when he first met her and how she wishes it was like that again. Then when they’re smashing the glass sculptures, the first thing Whiskey smashes is a sculpture of a bird. Hence smashing Miles perception of her as another person he can use like he used Birdie.
“You have him turn around so he can have deniability” -Aaron Burr in Hamilton (Basically what Blanc was thinking when he walked out of the room)
When Blanc is trying to light his cigar in the “Smokeless garden” the reason the alarms go off is because because just the smoke and small flames from Blanc’s cigar could cause “another Hindenburg”.
The ending scene with Helen and Blanc after Blanc asks her if she’s ready to go home, Helen’s sitting stance mimics the Mona Lisa. Miles said “It all started with her” in reference to his success being inspired by the Mona Lisa. But it all ended with Helen and her stance at the end mimicking the Mona Lisa is meant to represent that. The beginning and end of Miles Bron.
Blanc refers to alchol as offering Helen “some courage”. Ofc as we all know alcohol is commonly referred to as “Liquid Courage”.
We should’ve known Miles was the killer for this simple reason: The glass he handed to Duke. Duke dying holding Miles’s glass is literally like a signed note. Duke died with Miles name literally written on the crime scene.
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