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IT'S ALL IN THE MIND

This is the zone that challenges your mind and has your grey cells pumping at the Modhesh Fun City at the Dubai World Trade Centre, attracting children as well as adults.

“The concept behind the Clever Thinking Zone is to introduce children as well as parents to a variety of educational games, that help develop the mind and improve lateral thinking,” said Shaikh Chan Basha, salesman, Clever Learning Centre. “Most parents don't realise the availability and importance of such mind improving games.

With children wrapped up in TV or their PC's during their spare time, they hardly invest time in improving their mind. Even child who steps into this zone out of mere curiosity end up getting involved with a puzzling game for a long time until they get it right. That's the challenge that this zone offers — a challenge for the amazingly perceptive and open minds of the little ones who just have to be given the right incentives to use it,” he said.

In this age of computer games and PS2, it's heartening to watch children as young as six and as old as 15 breeze in from other activities to try their hands at Rush Hour, a tricky car game on a wooden platform and mini plastic cars, or Goblet a more complex game involving cylindrical wooden pieces. The Clever Minds challenge held every Monday from 6pm to 7pm is also attracting children of a wide age group.