If chess is not your game, consider a nice crossword puzzle.

The Jewelers' Circular, April 8, 1925, from
Milky Way Vintage Jewels.
Crossword puzzles were a huge fad in the 1920s. The book whose wide sales launched the publishing house of Simon & Schuster was a crossword book that came with its own pencil tucked into the spine. In 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a mystery story,
The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will that could only be solved by completing the crossword puzzle included in the book.