Mind Exercise

I work with this game and the Brain Age game and find that regular work with both of these games improves my memory. In this game's memory exercises, the game flashes numbers on the screen for a second or two and then you have to type in the number. They start out with two digits and go up to 6 digits. An interesting feature is that the game scales the difficulty, increasing the number of digits it flashes as you get them correct and scaling back the number of digits when you make a mistake. This scaling feature carries through all the different exercises. It is a well designed thought out game that appeals to a wide age range--4-100.

Get a Bigger Brain

I've wanted this game since I first got my DS almost a year ago. It is similar to the Brain Age games, but approaches training in a totally different way. There are 5 areas of your brain to improve, and 3 levels of difficulty per mini-game (about 3 each area) to keep you busy. The games are interesting and unusual, and I'll keep at'em until my brain is really big. The Brain Age games are still faves. Keep in mind this keeps track of your progress and trains your brain in a totally different way. Don't expect BA3, but do expect to have fun.

Mostly fun

A mostly fun experience slightly marred by the overly talkative (well, he doesn't talk) host character. Thankfully his blather can be skipped by repeated tapping of the arrow in the upper right.

And thankfully this game didn't include the endlessly frustrating "find the birds" game in the Wii version, the one game that always killed me in competition games.

The games are divided among five areas such as memory, thinking, analysis, identification, and ... I don't remember :) The activities are fun for the most part, and challenging as the difficulty progresses.

Some of the games are not explained that well on-screen, and take some figuring out, such as Pathfinder. And it would be nice if there was more time given. But these are small complaints.

I got this for a friend and she's completely hooked, trying to get all the gold medals.