The Crafty Puzzles Company: 03/25/13

Monday, 25 March 2013

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 26, 2013)

Man's Thirst

This teaser is in honor of man's quest to quench his thirst with non-alcoholic beverages. Can you figure out what drinks are depicted below?

1. Joint between thigh and lower leg + having great elevation + yielding readily to pressure + swallowing liquid contents.

2. A practitioner of medicine + spicy hot pod like fruit that grows on plants.

3. Dried and powdered rhizome used as spice + another name for beer.

4. Underground portion of a plant + another name for ale.

5. A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass and a height greater than that of a hill + water droplets condensed from the air.

6. A powder made from cacao seeds + tropical African evergreen plant having reddish fragrant nutlike seeds.

Check Braingle.com for the answer.

Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Mar 26, 2013)

To: Hades BCC: Persephone

Orpheus has just passed through Tartarus, exciting the inhabitants and renewing their wish to escape. Sign these emails to Hades with the correct name.

Take the Quiz at Braingle.com

Creativity : Mental Smells III

Close your eyes and try to recreate the following smells. This exercise helps improve your ability to form concrete impressions from memory, an ability that is one characteristic of creative people.

1. Brussel sprouts

2. A banana

3. Gasoline

4. Pencil shavings

5. Stinky socks

How well did you do at recreating the smells? How long did it take for each smell? Rank your recreation on a scale of 1-10 to how close it was to a real smell. Try to continuously improve.

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Prolix

pro-lix

adj :: Marked by or using an excess of words.

"The editor got frustrated with the prolix manuscript and skipped several hundred pages."

Memory : Taking Notes

If you aren't taking notes, then you might want to start. Note taking has been proven to be a highly effective way to learn and remember material. When you take notes, you put the information into your own words. This "translation" makes a huge difference to your brain, which can now more easily digest the material.

Additionally, when you take notes you are giving yourself a way to review the information later. It is very unlikely that you will be able to remember everything the first time you hear it. When you forget something and you don't have notes, then it's going to be difficult to relearn it.

You don't have to write down every little fact in a lecture or chapter of a book. Just write down the key facts and any information that you find unusual or interesting. Notes are not meant to replace the primary information; they are simply an aid to jog your memory.

Kids Peg Puzzle 2 Game Free - Android Apps

Kids Peg Puzzle 2 Game Free

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The App Family is proud to introduce the "Peg Puzzle 2", bringing you laughter and fun with beautiful HD graphics, high-quality sounds, 9 wildly different backgrounds and many puzzles to solve. In this free trial version 3 of the levels are available ...

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Three Freaky Posters Burn 'You're Next' Into Your Mind - Get The Big Picture (blog)

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Battle of the Brains Brain Teaser - wtvr.com

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Chimps like brain-teasers too - TG Daily

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Stimulate Your Pet with Brain Games - Petside

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One for my daughter too.

No, ‘D’ isn’t for daughter, it’s for Denae, lol. She was pleased, this one acommodated her video games. Her favorite color at the time was purple.

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Daily Sudoku: Tue 26-Mar-2013

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Daily Monster Sudoku: Tue 26-Mar-2013

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Daily Squiggly Sudoku: Tue 26-Mar-2013

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Book Review: Of Course: The Greatest Collection of Riddles and Brainteasers ... - Blogcritics.org (blog)

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Somerset County Senior Centers announce April programs - NJ.com

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New 'Iron Man 3' Trailer Puts An Unexpected Face Behind The Suit - Get The Big Picture (blog)

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PAX East 2013: Telekinesis Kyle hands-on with a potential wonder boy - GameZone

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PAX East 2013: Telekinesis Kyle hands-on with a potential wonder boy

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In this puzzle game for iOS and Android, a small boy named Kyle thinks he's going to get an education, but he ends up locked away in a government testing facility where they plan to turn him into a military weapon. Of course, like all government test ...

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