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Does anyone have any recommendations on suitable kids puzzle magazines that I can either pick up at smiths or subscribe to? Kids wordsearchs, riddles etc. The kind of things that may help with NVR AND VR.

Thanks

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I always liked the logic problem books and both my boys were good at them - I'm not sure they specifically help with VR but I have seen some similar concepts in NVR (even if not laid out in the same way). But they are very good at making a person think about teh information given and what you can deduce from that.

I always enjoyed puzzler quiz kids as a child and my daughter has followed in my footsteps and enjoys it too.

kenyancowgirl wrote:I always liked the logic problem books and both my boys were good at them - I'm not sure they specifically help with VR but I have seen some similar concepts in NVR (even if not laid out in the same way). But they are very good at making a person think about teh information given and what you can deduce from that.

Oh yes - the good old Who owns the zebra? puzzles, to quote the first one I ever did, in a puzzle book that came free with the Readers Digest circa 1969 (black and gold chequered cover, I seem to remember). Along with an orange squash and a packet of crisps, kept me occupied nicely out in the car in the pub car park, back in the days before children were allowed inside .

(Certainly preferable to trying to socialise with the horse in the adjoining field, off which I went sharpish, after the evening it tried to eat the T shirt I was wearing. Sometimes I wonder how I survived childhood ).

The first one I really remember was about who sat where in a cinema...!

I suspect, armed with your neon orange squash (it always was in those days!), and crisps, that I'm sure used to weigh more, and your Readers Digest, you appeared streetwise and savvy!