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People have been challenging and testing their brains capacity since 3000 years BCE, when ancient Sumerians carved puzzles into stone tablets.(Like this one, for example:
“There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?”).

Over time, we’ve created puzzles that test a variety of abilities—and we improved  up the most popular structures to make them even more difficult. However as the trouble of brainteasers has evolved, so too has our desire to tap them for sweet rest from the ordinary.
Enjoy a little free time and escape to see how many of these you can break.

Players feel a little teen rush when the solution found. Studies also says that pleasure probably won’t be the main advantage to crosswords: Regular playing may help slow down memory loss and other signs of cerebral ageing.

107 years ago when a brand new newspaper in NEW York City published first crossword the readers weren’t so interested. But in time the audience got bigger and now involves hundreds of thousands of fans who play and try to solve the puzzle every day.

Maze
Three-dimensional labyrinths can cause us to feel as though there’s no way out. Even in 2D, a distracting point represents a special test to our navigational abilities.

If the  road is quite circular even on paper, our hippocampus, which manages learning and memory, starts in overload to give meaning to the environment.
It uses visible signs – say a familiar familiar return – to help us clear the way from one end to the other.

Sudoku
You can give the answer to almost anything as long as there is a minimum of 17 numbers filled in at the beginning.Unlike crossword puzzles, these numerical networks require zero vocabulary skills as you only have to deal with numbers. While doing one day by day probably won’t transform you into an arithmetic marvel, a few studies have suggested that these sort of tasks can help keep  your brain in shape.

Logic
For over 1100 years, rationale puzzles have revealed how well we can reason. Despite the fact that solving them can demand some tricky calculations, they involve once in a while some traditional arithmetics.
They also test less concrete skills like imagination and memory.

Alumuddhin who serves the first half of the day, is full of gossip jokes and kind of noisy. Although sudden flashes of anger are not uncommon, they however dissipate within seconds. Sirajuddhin, his younger brother is by contrast much quieter and calm and he communicates though his gentle smile, almost as if he is secretly delighted at the ways of the busy city life.

It is like a crossword puzzle. Sirajuddhin tea stall is one of the most fascinating street side chai stops in the city. It is unique. On a shelf clamped into the wall ther is a wooden slab running from top to bottom and left to right. This divites the shelf into a stack of square shaped spaces, thus making it look like a sort of crossword puzzle that you often encounter in newspapers.

Of course instead of the alphabet letters the little boxes are usually congested with tea things. One box might have ginger sprigs and pink mugs. Another might have a kettle whose chipped texture is so evocative of the everyday chai civilisation that a history fan might feel tempted to steal it and display on his room. A close=by box is filled with China cups, tea glasses and the box below is packed with tiny metal trunks, or possibly a cash box. On the top row a box is over-stuffed with rusting metallic tea carriers that hold several chai glasses together.

Everything about this chai stall place was set up by the senior of two brothers. Including the wooden shelves according to Alimuddhin. The brothers house is just a few meters away.

The place has a couple of small steps beside it and one does not see the customers crowding up, enjoying their chai while watching the flood of traffic of dogs, mules, people, motorcycles go on with their daily routine on the lively street.

 
The VIP seating however is just across the lane, under a beautiful tree beside an uknown’s person marble grave. The tea shop regulars sit there all day long, chatting over the cups of Sirajuddhin’s chai with milk. The regular snacks are also served: fen and biskuts. The place starts serving daily from 5Am to 10PM,alghouth it used to stay open till late night during the pre-pandemic days.

On the day this place WAS SHUT closed with a wooden lid, the sight was haunting. It was such a rare afternoon as it seemed like the corner had lost an iconic part of it.