Free online crossword and other puzzles help boost your brain power without draining your wallet for book and game purchases.
AARP offers a wide selection of puzzles and games at its website. Others worth checking include: Crosswordsite.com, with hundreds of crossword puzzles at different levels that you can print out or solve online; Thinks.com, which lets you time yourself solving its daily crossword; and LanguageGames.org, which helps you learn a foreign language (English, Spanish, French, German and Italian) while playing.
For jigsaw enjoyment, check out JigZone.com, and for sudoku, word search and other games, there are PuzzleChoice.com and PuzzleExpress.com.
Sid Kirchheimer writes about consumer and health issues.
