Maintain Your Brain Friday - Crossword

Every week on the Alzheimer's Association website, they post a link to a crossword puzzle to promote brain health.  Here is the link to this week's crossword: http://www.kappapuzzles.com/alz/solveacrossword.html.

Good Luck!

Maintain Your Brain Friday - Truth Puzzle

Someone robbed a computer shop yesterday.  Four suspects were rounded up and interrogated.  One of them was indeed the robber.  Here's what they said under police questioning:

Arthur: Daniel did it.
Daniel: Tug did it.
Garth: I didn't do it.
Tug: Daniel lied when he said that I did it.

Only one of these four statements turned out to be true.  Who is the guilty man?

Maintain Your Brain Friday - Cryptogram

Cryptograms are secret code puzzles.

Cryptogram Example:
JGNNQ = HELLO.  The word was encoded by replacing each of its letters with the second letter after it in the normal alphabetic sequence.  J represents H (2 letters down), G represents E (2 letters down), N means L (2 letters down), and Q means O (2 letters down).  Thus, the hidden word is hello.

Now, it's your turn!

Here's the title of a famous American movie that has been encrypted.  What is the movie?

IQPG YKVJ VJG YKPF


One more:

This cryptogram conceals an English proverb.

B CJSE JO UIF IBOE JT XPSUI UXP JO UIF CVTI


Good luck!  The answers will be posted in the comment section.

I'm Back!

Sorry that I've been MIA for a few months.  I started a new job in October and several more life changes are on the way.  I haven't forgotten about my blog, I just got bogged down with everything else.  I am making it a priority to keep the blog up to date again.  Look for another new post on Friday, when I will return the "Maintain Your Brain Fridays."

I read an article today on tips to help remember people's names.  I thought it was interesting and thought you might enjoy it. http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/01/11477267-never-forget-a-name-again-tips-from-a-memory-expert?lite

Maintain Your Brain Friday - Word Play

Below are three words that have more than one anagram each. See how many you can find.

earring
tacos
user


Good Luck!

Maintain Your Brain Friday - Football Edition

Since everyone is probably still in turkey comas, I decided to make today's Maintain Your Brain Friday an easy one. To celebrate the last weekend of regular season college football, today's trivia is football themed. Here it goes!

In what conference do the last 5 national champions play? Name those 5 national champions.

Hint: My favorite team is the defending national champions!
Good Luck!

Maintain Your Brain Friday is Back

Maintain Your Brain Friday is back! I'm sorry I haven't posted one in a while. I'll be back to my normal schedule now...I promise.

This week's puzzle is a wordplay. Below are several phrases that are anagrams of the names of well-known people, both living and deceased. Determine as many of the names as you can.

1. Me, radium ace (scientist)
2. I'll make a wise phrase (playwright)
3. Bursting presence (American rock 'n roller)
4. Old West Action (actor/director)
5. Edge? Ref error (tennis great)

Good Luck!