Brain games have been proven to help keep your mind sharp – what part of that isn’t a wonderful thing?!  Brain games improve your memory, strengthen your reasoning skills, and help your ability to recall and process information.  Becoming forgetful IS NOT something that is “natural” or “normal” and it most certainly isn’t something we have to accept.

Mental fitness experts tell us that we can practically stay as sharp as we want to – if we’re willing to work for it.  Crossword puzzles, reading better books, eating a brain-healthy diet, stretching our minds, picking up new hobbies and interests, and brain games are all ways in which we can exercise our minds and keep them strong.

Brain games are particularly popular with mental fitness experts. Brain games bring about just the right amount of mental activity to encourage a strengthened mind and improved memory.

Your brain will love brain games below.  They will give your mind such a great little workout, you’ll feel ready for just about anything. Names? Dates? Bring them on, you’ll be ready.

1. Stroop Test:  A great Brain Teaser!
2. Inside and Outside: Interactive Game From Mind Fit
3. Image Quiz – Very addictive!

Brain Teaser

Count the F’s in the following sentence:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Click the link below for the answer.

There are actually 6 F’s in the sentence above, yet most people answer 3. Go back and look again!

How do most people miss three of the Fs? We generally read the word “of” without processing the F!

Make each moment count double,
~ Joi

The Little Book of Big Brain Games: 517 Ways to Stretch, Strengthen and Grow Your Brain It’s a pocket-size brain gym. Here are more than 500 full-color puzzles from the original “Big Book of Brain Games”-the book that Will Shortz praised as “the most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining collection of brainteasers since Sam Lloyd’s “Cyclopedia of Puzzles,”" and “The Washington Post “called “an opus . . . mixing math with wonder.” Here are mental games, visual challenges, logic posers, riddles, and illusions, each designed to stretch neurons and give the brain a workout-all in a format that will fit in your pocket. The puzzles (both original and mind-boggling adaptations of classics) are rated in difficulty from level one to ten, but even the easiest are guaranteed to make the solver feel smart. Can you cross the Impossible Domino Bridge? Break through the Queen’s Standoff? Wield the Sickle of Archimedes? “The Little Book of Big Brain Games”: salted peanuts for the mind.

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