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Here at The Braintenance Blog we work you hard. We don't just supply mind agility games (as Lumosity does), but we make your mind work in a myriad of ways through a myriad of channels. A great way to have some lowbrow [nothing to do with beer] entertainment (as opposed to brain entrainment) is to create anagrams out of colleagues' and friends' names, or, if you are either a conspiracy theorist or merely an angry person who'd like to find "hidden meanings" or hilarious re combinations of brand or product names, this is your chance. If you are not familiar with anagrams, here's the Wikipedia definition, description and an example or two: An anagram is a type of word play , the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse . Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist . The original word or phrase is...

Scan of the poem "Anagram" from the 1633 edition of George Herbert's The Temple. Source: http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/Anagram.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) As my English Literature Professor at State University once told us in a lecture, " They ain't no disputin' da facts! " Working with anagrams , finding analogies, as well as performing some deciphering tasks [often cleverly disguised as games !] will build your associative intelligence. Your associative intelligence has to do with 1 ) your ability to generalize from an example; 2 ) your ability to recognize similarities among objects in groups; and 3 ) the sped with which your miraculously Braintenance-enhanced mind is ability to make these identifications, generalizations and associations. Anagrams (paired with secret de-coding keys) have been the basis for numerous encrypted messages through the ages. For you Harry Potter fans , how about Lord Voldemort ? So doggone obvious. There is eve...