How Sudoku can boost your child’s brain power: Puzzles can improve memory and doing crosswords helps verbal fluency

How Sudoku can boost your child’s brain power: Puzzles can improve memory and doing crosswords helps verbal fluency

Sudoku puzzles can improve your child’s memory, experts have claimed Crosswords improve verbal fluency while word games help with vocabulary  Research was undertaken by experts at the University of Cambridge  | Updated: 19:58 EST, 1 August 2014 Children should do Sudoku and crosswords in school to boost their brain power, experts say. Doing Sudoku puzzles improves memory and doing crosswords improves verbal fluency and word games are great for learning vocabulary, University of Cambridge researchers have found. Their report, Puzzles in Education, presents the results of an extensive review into the use of puzzles in schools.