Flex appeal (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Remember when it was enough to merely tease your brain with puzzles? No more. In the 21st century, its all about brain training. Giving the ol noggin a fierce workout. Pumping up the gray matter. A growing variety of electronic products are targeting consumer anxiety over the aging mind. Photo caption: Video games and crossword puzzles engage your brain. Photo by Scripps Howard News …
Identity of bashing victim puzzles police (Queanbeyan Age)
POLICE say they are close to identifying a man savagely bashed in Coogee at the weekend, but are no closer to catching his attackers.
Author recreates the father she never knew (York County Coast Star)
KENNEBUNKPORTand#8212; Nearly all of us belong to families with mysteries in their pasts. Very few of us dare to set out across the sometimes-precarious seas of personal history to solve those puzzles.
Briefs (The Monterey County Herald)
SAND CITY Women's group to hold sales workshop The Professional Women's Network of the Monterey Peninsula will host a Saturday workshop, "Making Sense of Your People Puzzles: How personality-based selling can make your sales soar," 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Ream Construction, 567 Ortiz Ave.
Puzzles and paradoxes (Wairarapa Times-Age)
Puzzling it out at the Matharapa competition in Masterton Town Hall yesterday were St Patrick's school pupils from left Naomi Bruce, 10, Liliana Antonio, 9, and Joshua Saxton, 9.
Games Reviews (Independent)
As the latest Mummy movie lumbers on to our screens, its with a heavy heart that I fire up this title. Where to begin? The hideous camera angles? The arbitrary and logic-free puzzles? The thumb-numbingly tough-boss characters? The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has it all.
Mechanical Reasoners Battle It Out In Sydney Today (Slashdot)
Stephan Schulz writes "Today, the CADE ATP System Competition will pit about 20 of the worlds most powerful mechanical mathematicians against each other and for the first time they can win not only honour, but a monetary prize. The systems will reason against the clock on tasks ranging from undergraduate math problems and Cluedo-like puzzles to figuring out the possible responsibility for …
Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies (Slashdot)
walshy007 writes "After Shigeru Miyamoto developed a love of puzzles, the "brain-training" software that has proved to be an international "killer application" on the Nintendo DS console was born. He became interested in taking more exercise, and Wii Fit was created. He took up music lessons, and Wii Music was the result. Now, according to sources at Nintendo, the games designer has been banned …
Patch Products to buy Smethport (The Business Journal of Milwaukee)
Patch Products Inc., a Beloit manufacturer of games, puzzles and toys, said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Smethport Specialty Co., the maker of Lauri brand toys and specialty products.
