Mind Games 3.4.8

Mind Games is an impressive collection of brain training games. Based on cognitive tasks, these games are designed to help you practice and improve various mental skills. This version of the app is free but includes ads. It offers nearly 3 dozen brain training games, with some allowing you to play 3 times and requiring an upgrade for more plays.

All the games in Mind Games keep track of your score history and provide a graph of your progress. The games list provides a summary of your best performances and your scores for each game. Your scores are also converted to a comparison scale, using principles from standardized testing, so that you can easily identify areas for improvement and areas where you excel. Additionally, by examining the score history, you may be able to observe the effects of different lifestyle factors on your performance.

Mind Games is now available on iPhone/iPad and Windows as well.

Languages available in Mind Games include: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, and Japanese.

Below is a description of some of the games and their theorized abilities (not all games are available in all languages):

• Abstraction: This game exercises your ability to quickly differentiate between words with concrete and abstract meanings.
• Attention Training Game: This game helps you improve your attention skills by practicing your ability to ignore competing information and enhancing your processing speed.
• Anticipation: This game focuses on enhancing your ability to anticipate and respond rapidly.
• Divided Attention I: This game aims to improve your ability to divide your attention and respond rapidly.
• Face Memory: In this game, you need to memorize a group of faces and then recall them accurately.
• Math Star: Practice your basic arithmetic skills, speed, and attention to detail with this game.
• Memory Racer: This game helps you exercise your brain's working memory and processing speed.
• Memory Flow: Improve your visual and verbal memory for the flow of events with this game.
• Memory Match: Enhance your memory for completed tasks with this game.
• Mental Categories: Practice your processing speed and quick categorization skills with this game.
• Mental Flex: This game challenges your cognitive flexibility and ability to ignore competing information.
• Path Memory: Exercise your ability to memorize and reproduce paths in this game.
• Self-Ordered Learning for Objects: In this game, you need to memorize a sequence of objects using a sequence you determine.
• Similarities Scramble: Exercise your knowledge of word relationships in this game.
• Spatial Memory: This game helps you memorize the locations of tiles that flip over, with an increasing number of tiles.
• Speed Trivia: Put your general trivia and information knowledge to the test with this game.
• Verbal Concepts: Exercise your ability to quickly identify conceptual categories in this game.
• Vocabulary Star: Improve your vocabulary and spelling skills with this game.
• Vocabulary Power: This game provides an untimed multiple-choice vocabulary task.
• Word Memory: In this game, your challenge is to memorize 30 words and see if you can remember them accurately.

Mind Games is an engaging brain-challenging entertainment app. It is important to note that no research has yet been conducted to determine whether this app has cognitive benefits.