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Oct 8, 2006

Exercise brain: planning puzzle

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braintop Today we have a clas­sic plan­ning puz­zle, good for our Frontal Lobes and exec­u­tive func­tions, devel­oped by math­e­mati­cian Edouard Lucas in 1883 and fre­quently used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions. (Basic brain anatomy here)

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16 Responses

  1. eleanor says:
    October 9, 2006 at 9:04

    The Mind­Fields Col­lege blog has linked to you, I hope you don’t mind!
    We love read­ing your posts!

  2. Alvaro says:
    October 9, 2006 at 1:32

    Eleanor, I am very hon­ored about that! Let me go fur­ther, and say I am very hon­oured :-)

    NB: will have to spend more time at your blog and Mind­Fields col­lege. From a first look, it seems we are on a very sim­i­lar wavelength!

  3. eleanor says:
    October 10, 2006 at 9:26

    How humourous of you, neighbour!

    I’m glad you liked the look of our blog — as you can see we have only just begun it, and all read­ers are welcome.

    We pub­lished an extract from Elkhonon Gold­bergs book ‘The Wis­dom Para­dox’ in issue 48 of the Human Givens Jour­nal ear­lier this year, I just noticed that he is on your advi­sory board, what a coincidence!

  4. New Directions: Social Intelligence and the Frontal Lobes « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution says:
    October 14, 2006 at 5:34

    […] Other links: Take a sur­vey from MITA to help deter­mine clues to your strongest intel­li­gences Ned Herrmann’s Whole Brain Model for think­ing of think­ing Edward de Bono’s think­ing strate­gies Exer­cise your frontal lobe Another clas­sic brain puz­zle Learn­ing and teach­ing strate­gies for dif­fer­ent intelligences […]

  5. SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution » Blog Archive » Social Intelligence and the Frontal Lobes says:
    October 28, 2006 at 7:37

    […] Other links: Take a sur­vey from MITA to help deter­mine clues to your strongest intel­li­gences Ned Herrmann’s Whole Brain Model for think­ing Edward de Bono’s think­ing strate­gies Exer­cise your frontal lobe Another clas­sic brain puz­zle Learn­ing and teach­ing strate­gies for dif­fer­ent intelligences […]

  6. SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution » Blog Archive » Well-deserved break: Top 10 Brain Teasers says:
    December 1, 2006 at 1:49

    […] 3. Plan­ning is not that easy: Tow­ers of Hanoi […]

  7. Don says:
    January 21, 2007 at 12:46

    7 moves, 13 sec­onds first try. Is that good, bad or average?

  8. Valentina says:
    January 21, 2007 at 3:06

    i would really like to know what don wants to know… i had 7 moves 11 sec­onds.. where do i stand?

  9. Alvaro says:
    January 21, 2007 at 10:19

    Both of you are right: 7 moves.

    I am not aware of a nor­mal­ized table for speed…but 11–13 sec­onds is very good based on the times we have shown this exer­cise dur­ing our classes.

  10. » Well-deserved break: Top 10 Brain Teasers   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    January 30, 2007 at 11:09

    […] 3. Plan­ning is not that easy: Tow­ers of Hanoi […]

  11. » Brain Teasers and Games for adults: our Top 50    « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    October 16, 2007 at 10:32

    […] 13. Plan­ning is not that easy: Tow­ers of Hanoi (Interactive). […]

  12. miss says:
    January 11, 2008 at 11:04

    7 moves in 7 secs :)

  13. Matt says:
    March 17, 2008 at 7:06

    :D lol

  14. eric says:
    July 5, 2008 at 9:56

    omg i did auto­solve for 12 pegs..takes 4095 moves @.@

  15. Alvaro says:
    July 7, 2008 at 10:25

    Miss, very impressive!

    Would you like to try Eric’s sug­ges­tion :-)

  16. carlos says:
    December 21, 2008 at 11:05

    this web­site is great. a cou­ple of years ago I started to expe­ri­ence a con­stant decrease in my mem­ory when read­ing, remem­ber­ing what i read and much dif­fi­culty to con­cen­trate to do any­thing from remem­ber­ing the roads when i am dri­ving to names num­bers an so on,what exer­cises are bet­ter to improve my mem­o­rie an con­cen­tra­tion and be able to remem­ber an talk eas­ier about the thing i read??
    I would be very grate­ful if you can give me some guide­lines.
    Thanks and best wishes.

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