Memory Games for Seniors, Large Print

120 large print memory games in four levels: finish the saying, match the halves, remember the list, read and remember. One game to a page, and the answers at the back.

This book is for an adult over 65 who has done word searches and crosswords for years and wants something different, and for the daughter or son who buys it for a mother with a sharp mind and tired eyes. The goal is a game she can play on any page without asking anyone how it works: the rules are printed in the book, and the first game of each kind is solved for her. You play with a pencil: finish an old saying, put mixed-up letters in order, or study a list or a little story, turn the page and write what you remember. It makes a gift for a mother who has finished her last word search book, for a birthday or the next visit.

What's inside:

• Six kinds of game, 20 of each. Finish the Saying, Match the Halves, The Missing Word, Remember the List, Read and Remember, and Name Them All, taking turns in the same order on every level.
• Four levels of 30 that climb. Warm-Up, Easy, Medium and Challenging. Lists grow from 5 things to 7, 9 and 11; stories come with 3, then 4, 5 and 6 questions; words to unscramble grow from 3 to 5 letters up to 11.
• Rules you can follow on your own. Games 1 to 6 each open with a "How to play" line and a solved example, and a two-page "How to Use This Book" gives the rule of every kind, so you can start at any level.
• Large print. 18-point type, one game to a page, 8.5 x 11 inch pages with lines to write on.
• Study and turn. For the list and story games, the "your turn" page is one turn away, so the list is out of sight while you write.
• Answers by game number. They follow the order of the games, with a heading for each level. A program rebuilt every answer line from its game. Name Them All has no answers at the back: any answer that fits is right.
• Real old sayings. Every saying is copied word for word from Thomas Preston's 1880 dictionary of English proverbs, a public-domain book.
• Room for two. One person reads the list or the story aloud, and the other answers.

What it is not. It is not a children's book: the Challenging level asks for 11 things from a list and 6 answers about a story. It has no picture games, no word searches and no sudoku. There is no clock and no score.

Take a pencil, open at any level, and play one game or ten.