Scrambles Are of Varying Categories

Puzzles or scrambles are fun for people of all ages whether they are children, teenagers, adults, or the old alike. Basically they consist of putting pieces together to form a particular picture or a logical order to form a solution. They are brain teasers with activities that tickle your brain. They enhance critical, logical and creative thinking skills with either simple solutions for little children or those that require deeper brain activity.

Scrambles are of varying categories...some easy and others not so easy. These are generally making an object scramble, maze scrambles or even word scrambles. The solutions to the object scrambles would be to put together disjointed pieces of an object in some kind of order to form a meaningful object. For the maze scrambles the solution would be to find the proper route out of a maze with a story woven into it to make it more interesting for young children. Word scrambles consist of finding words from a puzzle in the shape of a square containing many letters of the alphabet. The solution may lie in finding words in every direction; forwards, backwards, up or down. Some scrambles are just anagrams where you form a proper word by changing the places of the letters that are given to form words.

People, who have an aptitude to identify a pattern from given data, fare better in these puzzles. Rubik's cube and crossword puzzles belong to this category. In a Rubik's cube, the solution is to find the quickest way to get all the faces of the cube with the same color onto one side. A crossword is finding the word that fits perfectly into the space given with the help of clues; either across or down. The difficulty level increases with age with children's crosswords the simplest and proceeding to the most difficult one for adults.

These scrambles are great and inexpensive gifts for all and especially when little children are on a holiday and need to have something meaningful to do. Besides giving them a good time, these scrambles develop their brains as well as increase their vocabulary. As mentioned earlier, scrambles are an excellent way to spend time.