Brain Teaser Cryptogram Puzzle

Book excerpt: Cryptogram puzzles are a great educational tool to enhance and promote cooperative play. We like the way that challenges our thinking and exercise our minds. Puzzles are also an important educational learning tool for young children as they provide many skills and mental learning benefits and opportunities. Puzzles come in a whole range of themes and topics such as countries, capitals, currencies, alphabet letters, shapes, vegetables, numbers, pets, transport, colours, sports, trees, mountains etc. It increases visual special awareness and develops a deeper understanding of these themes and topics. Completing a puzzle, even the simplest of puzzles set a single goal to achieve. This process involves problem-solving, reasoning skills and developing solutions that one can later be transferred into his personal life. Puzzles are a fun way for one to develop and refine your fine motor skills. When engaged in playing with puzzles, one is required to pick up, pinch and grasp pieces and move them around, manipulating them into slots, sorting them and fitting them into the correct places. The accomplishment of achieving a goal brings so much satisfaction to a player. Overcoming the challenges involved in solving a puzzle gives you a sense of achievement and pride within. It provides a boost to your self-confidence and self-esteem as it prepares you for other challenges in future life. This is a brain exercise that instantly grasps a person’s interest, and the person feels a sigh of relief only after solving the puzzle cryptogram. We should keep playing such games to keep our brains refreshed & active. These games act like the gym to the brain which is both helpful & necessary for it. The cryptogram puzzle words are encrypted using a secret code. Your job is to break the code by substituting letters for the words.