It is difficult to solve scanwords only to those people who are absolutely not friends with logic. Everyone else is recommended to solve at least one crossword puzzle, a scanword or some other puzzle every day, because finding answers to questions helps a lot to develop thinking.
To begin with, each type of logical puzzle needs to be solved only in a certain way.
Even a first grader knows how to solve puzzles, since there is nothing too complicated in them. Filling crosswords is a more difficult task, here you need to have at least superficial knowledge in various fields of science and life. A 15-year-old man today is unlikely to be able to solve a crossword puzzle, the answers to which are concepts from the time of the USSR, which cannot be said about an adult lover of logical entertainment.
And in order to solve scanners too, you need to have quite a lot of erudition. But this statement applies, of course, only to traditional crosswords, where you are required to enter words into cells. You may be surprised, but there are scanwords in which the answers are pictures. Japanese scanwords are just such an example.
Forget about how to solve puzzles, because for Japanese puzzles you have to strain not so much erudition as mathematical abilities, because you will need to count a lot. Japanese scanwords look quite unusual: a field of cells and strange columns of numbers at the edges. It is no wonder that beginners will first be lost and afraid to solve these puzzles. A simple Japanese scanword is very easy to solve. The numbers in the columns indicate the arrays of filled cells that need to be placed in a certain line.
The difficulty lies in the fact that you need to pre-calculate the possibility of intersecting some arrays of filled cells with others, as well as leaving space for gaps without which Japanese scanwords would turn into a "sea battle" game.
Since we are talking about Japan, it will not be amiss to recall Sudoku. How to solve the puzzles of this type, I will explain to you now, but first you need to tell a little about the history of their appearance. Many people think that the homeland of this puzzle is the Land of the Rising Sun. This statement is actually erroneous, since the famous mathematician L. Euler, who was not Japanese, came up with sudoku. The game was generally called at first by the rather strange name "chisobus" and was not particularly popular among scholars. Only after penetration into Japan did the numerals become interesting to a wide circle and got the current name.
How to solve Sudoku puzzles if you have never done this before?
I assure you, there will be no difficulties, especially if you first take on a puzzle of low complexity. The essence of the game is that you are given a square of 9 by 9 squares, additionally divided by 3 by 3 squares. Each small square should contain numbers from 1 to 9, just like the lines of a large square. Moreover, the numbers in lines and small squares should not be repeated. Sudoku will help you pass the long winter evenings.
Of course, these are not all puzzles that have already been invented by man. There are kakuros, clue puzzles, Rubik’s ball ... But before you take on them, you must first learn how to quickly solve crosswords, scanwords and sudoku, which will be your first step towards developing your own intelligence.