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The Brain Loves Patterns: Numbers, Images, Colours and Words
Why do we see faces in clouds and guess the next note of a song? The brain is a pattern-hunting machine β and the four pattern families in everyday games (numbers, images, colours, words) each train a different kind of attention.
Seeing the Rule in a Run of Numbers
You don't need to be good at maths β you need to spot the rule. From the doubling chain 2, 4, 8, 16 in GhΓ©p Sα» to Sudoku's art of elimination, number patterns are the easiest forward-looking thinking to start with.