For those of us who work desk jobs or stare at screens all day, it is imperative to exercise both the eyes and neural pathways to avoid sensory stagnation. Puzzles, brainteasers, and optical illusions provide the perfect opportunity to take a moment out of your working day for the sake of your senses.
Puzzles that combine letters and numbers are particularly useful as our brains naturally group alphanumeric data together; having to extract numbers from a sea of letters within an optical puzzle, therefore, is brain-training heaven.
