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By: ChallenGenes


Suppose you want to improve your creative thinking.... What would you do?




"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would
be forever repeating the same patterns."- Edward de Bono



Creativity is the ability to look at reality differently, to think outside the box, to create new ideas, to propose solutions and implement existing ones better. It is thinking about things beyond the obvious, seeing beyond the surface, the ability to upload a not so obvious idea from the available information you have. It cannot be a simple logical deduction.

Everyone has an innately different level of creative potential and will develop and implement it, or alternatively, abandon it. Children, for example, often tend to raise new and original ideas. This is due to the fact that children have less knowledge and therefore are less apt to be conceptually framed while they think. They are not aware of limiting socially acceptable behavior, they experience less fear of failure, and their drives are less patterned than in adults.

Indeed, the creativity lies in each and every one of us from infancy. There are tools and methods (many of them very creative) that develop creative thinking and break limited patterns. Each one has the method appropriate to him. First, you have to understand and believe that this is possible. Gym training improves fitness and muscle and contributes to improved heart activity. Exercise regularly and with persistence. Exercise the brain and you will have the same results in the “brain gym”. Training expands your creative thinking ability, memory, brainpower and more.

Brain teasers, lateral thinking and wooden puzzles are excellent training and develop your ability to provide solutions, be more flexible and open to new ideas and see things from different perspectives. You will better understand ambiguity and be able to change strategies when coming to a dead end.
Brain teasers are a cheap, fun tool to use. They are available at any time and place, easy to carry, and can be played alone or with others. These games offer you a way to develop your creative thinking skills, memory, visual perception and more while having fun and being challenged.


Suppose you want to improve your spatial and visual perception.... What would you do?




Confucius, the greatest philosophers in ancient China, said:
"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I know.”



Your spatial ability is divided into 3 categories:

1. The ability to perceive visual information.
Such capability includes distinguishing similarities and differences, global perception of form, perception of relationships between bodies such as character and background and more. The source here is a visual three-dimensional.

2. The ability to create a mental image.
This category includes the ability to imagine forms and shapes from a two dimensional representation.

3.The ability to manipulate mental imagination.
This capability includes the ability to visualize the movement of bodies and the ability to visualize the process of change or product groups. The source is three-dimensional, and implements Visualization.

Spatial perception is important to everyone in everyday life. It is important for learning math and geometry. Good spatial reasoning and perception is necessary in certain professions such as engineering, fashion design and even sport.

There are many mind games such as: Interlocking puzzles, disentanglement and wire puzzles that apart from being an amusing and challenging game, they develop exactly the capabilities mentioned above. They are objects whose aim is to dismantle and then re-assemble back to the original shape. They have different star shapes, squares, circles and ovals. Sometimes, the beautiful shape of this class of games makes them decorative items or attractive furniture.

As an educational tool they foster spatial reasoning and perception, helping to develop creativity and an understanding of the structure of geometric objects. If your goal is understanding spatial attributes of shapes for you or for your children, then wooden puzzles, comfortable and suitable for all ages are the solution for you.


Suppose you want to improve your self-confidence and ability to solve problems.... What would you do?




"A pessimist sees difficulty in opportunity.
Optimist sees the opportunity with difficulty."
- (Winston Churchill)



Most mind games are equipped with some flashing trick or logic deduction equivalent to the solution itself. Finding it is the fastest way to the solution. The difficulty in finding this certain wisdom is due to many different reasons. After several attempts you may decide it is too difficult, which is what people tend to do that when they see others are successfully solving the same game before them. However, you can try to see the opportunity in the difficulty! Learn from the process and improve your skills. You will be rewarded at the end.

The key is: Understand what's hard for you, and then you can also figure out how to overcome the difficulty.

Solving brain teasers and wooden puzzles teaches you to become more familiar with yourself, your virtues and weaknesses. You learn to identify what is difficult for you and where you get along easily. You can decide to improve your weaker skills and take your strengths a step forward.

Different games improve different skills. For example if you understand that three-dimensional disentanglement games are more difficult for you to solve, it’s may be the time to roll up your sleeves and improve your spatial vision. Games exist in a variety of levels, from the very easy to the very difficult. If you persist by moving from easy the very difficult, you will see improvement and most importantly, you will have improved your self-confidence as well as your ability to solve the problems in your life.


Improve skills like creative thinking, spatial and visual perception, self-confidence and your ability to solve problems by playing fun challenging games.

ChallenGenes - Develop, learn and improve your skills by playing fun challenging games.

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