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Online skill games can be a valuable tool to help develop targeted mental skills. They are games in which the component of developing a particular skill, which can be physical-manual (games in which you point and shoot, to understand each other) or logical-mathematical skills (puzzles, riddles, word games).
Many types of educational and stimulating pastimes are now easily found on the Internet, which are useful not only to help with entertainment but also to train reasoning, with the special feature that they are fun and engaging.
Today we are talking about Online skill games that serve to develop lateral thinking, reasoning, and logic. They are a diverse and playful category, suitable for everyone.
On the Cognifit site, there is an interesting section devoted to games to train mental skills: from memory to coordination, from perception to reasoning. The games are all divided into sections and explain exactly what particular skill they are going to stimulate.
It is well known that chess is one of the most famous and widely played games of strategy and concentration in the world. Of very ancient origin (it seems they originated in India in 500 AD), today they exist in many versions including online. There are sites galore for playing it, today we would like to suggest the following: Chess.com, which has a simple and straightforward interface. You can choose to play against a PC or against an online play, you can choose the level of play, and there are links to video guides and articles to learn from scratch.
Surely you also have that friend who gave you the riddle: can you draw a star in a circle without detaching the pen? There, the answer is trivial actually, but online there is a more complex version of this puzzle. The game consists of increasingly complicated levels, and the goal is to draw the figure they propose without “taking the pen off the paper” (ideally) in practice, without going over the same line twice. The game is available on many online game platforms, you only need to type “single line” and choose the one you prefer!
If you love crossword puzzles, you definitely can’t do without their online version! Word games have so many benefits, including increased memory, attention, and reasoning! If you are short of the paper version, no problem because there are plenty of these online skill games! Crossword puzzles, classic crossword puzzles, word chains, and all sorts of variations!
For the fifth idea, we suggest you try one of our own MysterU cases, a realistic, challenging, and adventurous investigation and clue-finding game. From our site, you will be able to choose from the available cases and you will have the opportunity to identify yourself as a real secret agent: you will be required to investigate real sites, social networks, and forums because that is where we have hidden the clues you will need to solve the case!
The benefit of this type of online skill game is to train lateral thinking (we talked about this here) since it stimulates cause-and-effect connections and the search for solutions to nonlinear puzzles. You can play it from any device, no download is needed, and you can quit and resume whenever you want!
For more information, please visit our website or read this article, where we explain how it works in detail.
Well, this was our selection of online skill games to sharpen login and lateral thinking.
If you are looking for more games, check out this article, where we talked about vintage games online, or at this, where instead we reported the best educational games for children.
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