Mind games stir an individual and wake them up and keep their minds working and active. You might not know that keeping our minds active will enable us from aging and helps to keep the memory process from slowing down.
The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour, written by Graeme Base belongs to the genre of curious mystery. The book is written in the year 1988 and is an illustrated book for children. The book showcases a scene, where the elephant named Horace invites his friends on his eleventh birthday and asks them to play eleven games at the party and can have dinner at eleven o’clock. But, there happens lot of confusion when they discover that food has already been eaten. Find out who is that glutton and solve the mystery with careful analysis.
The book is written in rhyme, the book includes large and lavish full-page illustrations of Horace’s opulent house and the events of the party, packed with hidden details. The author invites the reader to deduce the identity of the thief by examining the illustrations and making deductions and observations. The major and most conspicuous clue lies in a paragraph of ciphertext at the end of the book, which is to be decrypted, once the reader has discovered the identity of the thief, by means of a Caesar cipher mapping A to the first letter of the guilty animal’s name. The solution to the cipher confirms the answer to the puzzle and offers an additional challenge to the reader.
Treasure’s Trove
Treasure’s Trove: A Fairy Tale About Real Treasure For Parents And Children Of All Ages is an exemplified book for the kids, which has been written by Michael Stadther and was published in 2004 by Treasure Trove Inc.
The book rendered the so called “real treasure” when it gave an opportunity of decoding clues in the book that led to fourteen tokens that could be turned in for exceptional jewels, each representing an insect or characters from the book, or a cash prize representing one third of the jewel’s value. Initially, it was reported that there were twelve jewels. The book has also been adapted as a movie and has also won fourteen prizes. The book has a story of twelve forest creatures whose mates disappear after being crystallized by a dark dust that falls every evening. The forest creatures combine forces with Zac (the handsome woodcarver), Ana (his beautiful half-elf, half-human wife), and their hesitant, plump, winged “doth” Pook (inspired by the author’s dog Misty) to save the creatures and restore the dying forest.
The book is available at lelobooks, an online bookstore in India and avail attractive discounts! So, to bring some stirring instances which will make you to brush up your imagination and thinking process, get this book.
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