Mind Games - Puzzles & strategy fun

A superb compilation of brain-teasing games, Mind Games offers a variety of challenges designed to enhance different mental skills. This is the ad-supported free version of the popular brain training app, featuring around 36 games from Mindware. Each game keeps track of your scores and progress through a history graph. Your best games and today’s scores are summarized in the games list. By converting your scores into a comparison scale based on standardized testing principles, you can identify areas for improvement and strengths. The impact of various lifestyle factors on your performance can also be discerned from the score history.

App description:

This app is a collection of games that test your cognition skills. By playing the games the player can better their skills in memory, attention, maths and language.

Features of Mind Games:

Quick Exercises

Two to Three Minutes Per Game

Life can be busy. The game play time is kept to a short enough time to fit into a busy schedule while still providing a challenge.

Tracking Progress

Chart Your Progress

See a chart of your scores for each game over time. Mind Games has an innovative scoring system that estimates standardized scores based on our large scoring database. This allows you to compare your scores to the average performance for your age.

Varied Exercises

Challenge Multiple Skills

Why challenge just one cognitive skill? Mind Games was developed to help you challenge many different cognitive skills.

In App purchasing

No: None found.

Online information

The game allows each player to create their own profile, so multiple players can use the app on the same device. In order to have a profile you need to enter an email address. However, you can play as a guest which means you do not have to create a profile. However, in guest mode the game will not keep track of your scores or set questions which are specific for your age group.

Gambling

No gambling content found during the review.

Advertising and product placement

There is a lower bar on the app which displays advertisements for other similar apps or for companies such as Google.

Gender stereotypes and sexual references

N/A.

Coarse language

N/A.

Game playing behaviour which may be of concern to some parents

No game playing behaviour which may be of concern to parents was found during the review.

Other

N/A.

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Mind Games is now accessible on iPhone/iPad and Windows platforms and supports multiple languages including English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, and Japanese.

There is a range of games available, each focusing on specific mental abilities such as abstraction, attention, anticipation, memory, arithmetic, and more. Memory-related games like Face Memory, Memory Racer, Memory Match, and Word Memory aim to boost your brain’s working memory and processing speed. Other games challenge your cognitive flexibility, attention control, vocabulary, and spatial memory through engaging activities.

While Mind Games aims to provide entertaining brain training, no formal studies have validated its cognitive benefits yet.