Rubiks Cube

It's important at any age to keep the brain chugging away on new and challenging exercises.

    * Thousands of new cells are generated in the adult brain every day, particularly in the hippo campus, a structure involved in learning and memory.
    * Within a couple of weeks, most of those newborn neurons will die, unless the animal is challenged to learn something new. Learning—especially that involving a great deal of effort—can keep these new neurons alive.

Great for Kids, was proven that kids who play with the Rubiks cube had far more higher IQ's than those that did not.