Some Knowledge

I just searched on Google for free brain training games.  There are a lot of these on the net.  Most of these games are flash games that you can play on the browser.  None of these games appealed to me.  I don’t like solving puzzles so much, and figuring out words like in wheel of fortune is not my thing.  Still, there is no reason to pay for games when so many are available for free.

I noticed that there are a lot of places where you can buy these kinds of games.  Most of these games seem to be stand-alone software for the PC.  There is a big difference in the price of some of this software.  I noticed one site that wants $129 for a one-person license to use their program.  I guess if you are selling warez to people who have a deficit in brain function, you jack up the price because they probably don’t know they can get similar stuff for free off the web.

Just about any game you play is going to challenge your brain.  That’s the whole point of games.  Even physical games like baseball or golf have a mental aspect to them.  If you want to keep your brain active, consider a game of cards, or checkers, or chess if those are too easy for you.  Almost any game you play, even whack-a-mole, will involve using your brain in some way.

Before you lay out a lot of cash for some game that is supposed to train your brain to be better than it is, consider how much fun you are likely to have playing this game.  If it’s something boring like finding letters or doing crossword puzzles, try to find something that’s more interesting.  Racing cars or slaying orcs is probably going to be more fun for you than spotting birds or trying to remember what you had for breakfast last week.  You might even ditch the whole concept of games and read stuff in books or on the net, then turn around and use that information to do something like write an article for your blog.  The brain is like any other part of your body.  The more you use it, the stronger it gets.