Kenken: Can You Get Smarter?

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Can You Get Smarter? When you hear it is time for a workout you usually tend to think you’re about to go pump some iron, but is it possible to workout your brain? Ever since the increase of people starting to forget things, people have been wanting to increase their brain activity with things like: smart drugs and supplements to brain training. People try all this games, activities, and programs to help their intelligence but are they actually helping making you smarter or are they just helping you with that task? Games that are meant to help you get smarter might not actually help you. “Playing the math puzzle KenKen will obviously make you better at KenKen. But does the effect transfer to another task you haven’t practiced, like a crossword

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