The crosswords are hard. The wordsearches are easy. The logic puzzles are fun. My dad loves puzzles, and I plan on getting it for him for a Christmas present.

Entertaining and relaxing. This book is so much fun. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the free eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

What a great stocking stuffer for adults or travel project to kill time in the airport! I love to do sudoku and crosswords but many of the puzzles in this book are new to me. I particularly enjoyed masyu a grid puzzle with circles that give you clues on how to draw a connecting line through the grid. Try to draw the shortest line. To keep frustration to the minimum the answer key is in the back of the book. Enjoy!

One of those puzzle books that wants to be something above the... well, above the puzzle book from the magazine shop spinners. To that end we get a quick introduction on why we're here, and an extended first chapter offering sample puzzles and tips on their solving. And then we're into the main heart of the piece – crosswords (of the American style), word searches (and yes, we did have a page of instruction on how to solve them), sudoku, "calcudoku" (or kenken, to you and me), those routine and now ancient logic grid puzzles, code-breaking tasks, and a selection of rarer, more fun types.

So what we actually get are 22 crosswords, all themed – the one with 'names all starting with J' should not be too testy; 14 word searches; 24 sudoku; 8 kenken; 12 logic grids – of the very small, warm-up size; 8 quotes in codes; and finally 9 pages of others. Oh, and the intent was to make everything a uniform simplicity – the introduction takes great efforts to let us know it's all easy and most doable, so we don't get narked, and we all get the same tiny boost to our brain activity wherever we turn in these pages.

The issue is what happens if we want more than a tiny boost for our brain? What if we want a harder sudoku than the 21st here, where one row and one column each have only two digits to fill in? What if we know the logic grids in and out and find the smaller size too trivial? Well, the clue is in the title, of Relaxing Brain Games – this is a chillaxed affair, a winding down, and if they take less effort and time than getting an ideal shower temperature at the end of the day then so be it.

This then is for those who know they're getting a cosy time with pen in hand, and therefore won't get frustrated at seeing something they can't do. It could be they find this better value than the routine puzzle magazine that gets abandoned. For those, this may be a godsend – for people who I can see completing this in little over an hour it's all the money and more. For me it would be a pass, as being somewhere in between those extremes, but this does do what it wants to do, and does it rather well.

Relaxing Brain Games For Adults is a great book with a variety of puzzles to entertain and stimulate the brain.
The book is well organized. Each chapter is dedicated to a type of brain puzzle - Crosswords, word searches, sudoku and calcudoku, logic grids, cryptic and logic puzzles… etc
I like that the first chapter “ How to Solve the Puzzles” gives new puzzle solvers clear instructions for every genre, and that the last chapter includes the answer key for every puzzle for those who need to check their work. I also like that the puzzles are middle-of-the-road, not too easy as to be boring and not too difficult as to tax the brain. The big font is another plus.
I enjoyed the time I spent solving the puzzles and I highly recommend this awesome book.

This was okay I really felt like I didn't take anything new from this. I wish it would've had a little more data to back up the statements made in the book, and the games weren't actually very fun.

This book of puzzles is awesome! It has all my favorite types of puzzles to exercise the brain and keep it healthy. Crosswords, soduko, and so many more.

Thank you #NetGalley and Casllisto Publishing for #RelaxingBrainGamesforAdults

A great book for anyone looking for a variety of puzzles. The introduction lays out the various types of puzzles and how to solve them. Then follows several themed chapters organized by puzzle type. I would say these puzzles are of medium difficulty.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #CallistoPublishing for a free copy of #RelaxingBrainGamesForAdults. All opinions are my own.

Hubby and I both love puzzles and this is chock full of them! There's something for everyone in here!

This book is great for all the puzzle lovers out there! The puzzles are fun and entertaining! There’s even instructions for those who want to learn how to solve the puzzles! AND, there’s the answers at the end so that you can verify your answers!

Lately, I have very much enjoyed putting aside everything to engage fully with a puzzle. This title offers much to anyone who would like to do the same.

Inside this generously sized book are all of the instructions a solver could need and then lots of puzzles. There are crosswords, word searches, sudoku, calcudoku, logic puzzles, cryptograms, Masyu (which I did not know), and nonograms.

Those who like to gently stress their brains will want to sample this one.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Callisto Publishing for this title. All opinions are my own.