[Article déjà publié le 11 mars 2024]
The benefits of this puzzle for your brain
In addition to improving your ability to concentrate, logic problems allow you to relax. In fact, they take up all your attention, diverting it from the subjects that normally occupy your mind. They also offer the opportunity to work on your motor skills but also your memory.
Solving a puzzle also helps, regardless of the age of the person trying to solve them, to slow down the reduction in cognitive functions as well as Alzheimer's and dementia. Like games in general, they also use our motor skills.
It doesn't take much to get your brain working. This time, grab your prettiest box of matches to solve an equation. The objective will be to arrange these small wooden rods in various ways until the solution is found.
Your mission is to solve the equation 8 + 1 = 7 as quickly as possible.
Birth of the first puzzle
Another fun invention helps stimulate our brain: the puzzle, which was created in 1760 by John Spilsbury, a British cartographer and engraver. The goal of his invention was educational. Indeed, the motif of the first puzzle was a world map with the aim of making it easier for children to learn geography. At that time, puzzles were called “dissected maps”.
Over time, their motif evolved: landscapes, scenes from the Bible or even paintings, they made it possible to learn subjects other than geography in a fun way.
As a bonus
The brain works like a muscle. The more you train him, the more he will get used to solving complex problems. That's why we're giving you a few extra puzzles and riddles to practice with.
And above all, don't hesitate to look at it together, this also has the benefit of strengthening social ties!
The solution
Did you manage to solve this puzzle? If so, well done. For those who have not been able to find the solution, we will explain to you how to do it.
All you had to do was remove a match from the number 8 and place it on the number 1. This gives you 0+7=7.
Read also >> Why is mathematics important in everyday life?
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