Seven resources, brain teasers and puzzles to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2024

We invite you to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week (March 11–17th, 2024) by explor­ing more about our minds and brains and by putting them to good use via some fun brain teasers, puz­zles and illusions :-)

Draw the let­ter J in your mind.

Now draw the let­ter D. Turn it 90 degrees to the left and put it in top of the J.

What does this shape resem­ble? (and, what cog­ni­tive skill/s did you just use?)

1. Try these quick teasers to chal­lenge your work­ing memory
2. Can you con­nect these pairs of words?
3. Three clas­sic opti­cal illu­sions, explained
4. Test your cog­ni­tive skills with these proverbs
5. Study exam­ines com­mon cog­ni­tive bias­es such as this one and ways to mit­i­gate them

About Brain Awareness Week:

Every March, Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) unites the efforts of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Activ­i­ties are lim­it­ed only by the orga­niz­ers’ imag­i­na­tions and include open days at neu­ro­science labs; exhi­bi­tions about the brain; lec­tures on brain-relat­ed top­ics; social media cam­paigns; dis­plays at libraries and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters; class­room work­shops; and more. This year BAW takes place March 11–17th, 2024.

1. Try many games, rid­dles, and puz­zles Here
2. Explore use­ful fact­sheets Here