Is it true that puzzle games increase your IQ?!


Question: Is it true that puzzle games increase your IQ!?
Well i play puzzle games when i have nothing to do and i get really into them!. I have heard somewhere that they increase your IQ is this true!. Be specific!Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Yes, studies have shown that "mental aerobics", such as solving crossword puzzles, are an important part of a healthy lifestyle and can minimize the risk of developing debilitating neurodegenerative diseases!. and can actually help increase your IQ!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes!.

They may not increase your intelligence!. However, if you use your brain you are going to become a more agile thinker!. If you play lateral thinking games you are going to become a more creative thinker!.

Your brain, like any other organ or muscle in your body grows with use!. At the same time as storing new information you can also loose old information that you no longer need!.

Psychological research suggests that creative thinkers don't have great memories and vice versa, that those with great memories are not creative thinkers!.

IQ is a test that can be learnt!. The more games you play, the better your score!. It doesn't mean that you are becoming more intelligent, just that you are using your brain in a particular way!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

In a way, I guess you could put it that way!. Puzzles make you think and most make you think outside the box!. What puzzles do is more or less improve your mind's logical thinking to the point where you can apply this thinking to other things!. I loved puzzles when growing up and in 2nd grade my iq was so high they wanted me to skip a grade!. My mom said no so they settled in putting me in a little thing called spectra, where guess what!? They gave you more puzzles!. I ended up stopping spectra in 4th grade due to circumstances i would not like to get into but I had another iq test last year and they said it went down to 163 but according to the scale im still in the genius level!. Though there was no "before" puzzles for me so whether or not it actually increased mine is unknown to me!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

IQ is a controversial and frankly, obsolete attempt at quantifying a person's intelligence and as a scientist, I think it is a load of baloney that belongs in the same bin as the flat earth theory and Lamarckian evolution!. Ahem, with that said!.!.!.

I guess what you're trying to ask is, "Will these things make me smarter!?" The short answer is, "Sort of!." Most puzzles exercise a certain part of your brain and the more you do them, the better you get!. It's like lifting weights, only neurological systems do not remodel as easily as skeletal muscle, so your improvements are not going to be dramatic and you're not going to go from Bam Margera to Albert Einstein, but they're there!. However, I have found in my own experience that usually, the people who enjoy puzzles are already gifted in areas such as spatial percetion; thus, a better idea might be that a strong mind leads to a person doing puzzles and not the other way around!.

Personally, I don't know about my so-called IQ, but I can say that puzzles raise one number in my body, one that we can legitimitely quantify: my blood pressure!. I am terrible at puzzles and for the sake of my heart, I avoid them like the plague!. Real life is stressful enough!. Yeesh!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Nope, they just make you better at spatial reasoning and things like that, which are tested on IQ tests!.

They don't actually make you smarter!. They just increase various mental skills that subsequently make you score higher on IQ tests!.

The problem is that IQ tests aren't a "true" measurement of intelligence!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Depends on what kind of puzzle it is!. Like, if it is a 1,000 piece-puzzle, it could, but if it's like, a ten-piece puzzle, it'd probably only increase the IQ of a little kid lolWww@Answer-Health@Com

yeppers !.!.!.if you dont use it you loose it!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I doubt it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

i don't think it increases your iq, but helps your memoryWww@Answer-Health@Com





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