Crossword puzzles may be better for boosting memory than more app-based games

WIth all this modern-day technology it can be easy to disregard more ‘old school’ ways of keeping our brains ticking over – but this could be to our peril …

As we get older, it’s more and more important to stimulate the old grey matter, with puzzle games as popular now as they ever were.

While in the past we’d have reached for the newspaper crossword or sudoku, these days many of us are more likely to pick up our tablet or phone for a spot of Wordle.

And there’s nothing wrong in that – for anything that helps to slow the progression of cognitive impairment is always welcome.

And this rise of the app-based puzzler is a thriving business, with a ‘brain game’ industry rapidly developing over the past two decades.