Thread: Do you alternate Red Herring's and Mind Benders???

or do you do one one week and the other the next? Also, does anyojne do these during meal time? My family loves these and they could very easily become a fun thing to do during meal time (though DD will have to do hers during "school time")

I've seen the Red Herrings books but didn't quite get the point. I guess you use a Q&A, yes/no approach (one person with the answer, the other asking questions) to deduce the solution. That didn't really interest me, so I passed. On the Mindbenders, we're doing the B books. They're fine, relatively enjoyable, but they require too much writing (and time frankly) to be done over dinner. Of course maybe I just...

My 8yo (3rd grade) is doing the MindBenders CDRoms for the first 3/4 of this year then doing the Red Herring book the last 1/4.