Required in Program(s): Challenge A This visually lush, whimsical puzzle book provides a vast array of challenging puzzle play to provide fifteen weeks of mental exercise to cultivate sharp, quick-witted, prudent thinkers with mental tenacity, flexible thinking, and logical puzzle-solving skills. This carefully curated collection of mind-bending challenges includes historic and historically inspired riddles, enigmas, conundrums, visual puzzles, logic puzzles, paradoxes, rebuses, ciphers, secret codes, and steganography to train the student to think creatively and logically in preparation for future formal logic, aesthetics, philosophy, and theology studies in the Reasoning strand. Students will grow fit minds as they learn strategies for creative, out-of-the-box puzzle-solving as well as grow in their development of introductory formal logic skills as they solve the puzzles created by renowned logicians, mathematicians, and authors. The practice of both solving and creating their own puzzles will help students develop a conundrum-cracking mindset that is alert, attentive to detail, flexible, armed against deception, and ready to pose and solve riddles, enigmas, ciphers, and other conundrums of all kinds.
