Mind Benders, Beginning Book 1

If you are looking for critical thinking exercises i promise this is the one! My 5 year old hounds me about doing these. If I appear to not be doing anything she is walking up to me with the book and her pencil. The puzzles themselves have the same layout. I like this because we dont spend a lot of time figuring out what the puzzle wants. She knows what she is supposed to do, and the puzzles get harder and harder as the book goes on. Also, the wording is pretty easy as well so my 5 year old can read alot of the words in the puzzle so it is a great reading exercise too. I spent a lot of time trying to find a critical thinking book for this summer and I saw a comment on a different book mention this book. I'm so happy we found these!

My kids love mind benders!!! We wish there were more in the series! Excellent tool to keep kids motivated and excited about school work.

I grew up doing Mind Benders and LOVED them as a kid (and, let's be real, I loved them when I dug some of the upper levels out last year and challenged my husband a Mind Bender's race - he was not prepared). So, I was super excited that my godson has shown a knack and love for puzzles and logic/deduction games. I recently purchased the first level for him to try - I'll try to remember to update once he's had a go at them.

Getting my daughter to sit down and actually do work that enriches her mind is very difficult. However, the way these are set up, she doesn’t even realize she’s learning. She just thinks she’s solving a fun puzzle. She didn’t want to stop and we ended up doing about 15 in a row. She loves them and we just bought the second level

I got this book for my 4.5 year old daughter and she enjoyed completing the exercises. She was easily able to complete all the 3x3 matrix exercises. I would recommend this book to teach young children problem solving and logic skills. The only think I did not like is how you had to mark Y and N in the results matrix. My daughter would just draw lines to match the results. I would prefer the results layout to be more like a matching then matrix. There is no way a 4 year old can understand to put her results in a matrix form.