Games for Brains

If you are the proud owner of an iPod, iPad or iPhone, you can forget about Nintendo’s, Dr. Kawashima’s brain training. Whenever you feel like your brain cells are about to wither and die, pay a visit to the Apps store and search for one of the many games available to exercise your brain. But if decision making is not your strongest asset, Cheapest-iPod.com have compiled a list that promises to limber up your lobes and flex your Cortex wherever you are – and have fun whilst you’re doing it.

Sudoku Superstar
Since Suduko has become more popular than the traditional crossword you find in daily newspapers, it seems that the numbers are more important to us than words. Perhaps that’s why people are more interested in making money than having an intelligent conversation. And now apps developers have taken the popular numbers game one step further with a polished Sudoku webapp experience straight to your iPhone. Suduko superstar has three degrees of difficulty levels which contain symmetrical Sudoku puzzles with just the one unique solution. Can you solve it? The app works offline and for an improved image you can play it in full screen. For beginners there is also a ‘How to Play’ guide to help get you started.

Ultimate 15
If you like numbers games, but want a change from Sudoku, Ultimate 15, also known as Puzzle 15, is a great way to test your guile and logic. The object of the puzzle is to manoeuvre the tiles in correct ascending or descending order (1 to 15 or 15 to 1) by using the empty space. Though this may sound simple, winning is not always achievable and the idea is not to get cornered. Try to complete the task in as few moves as possible.

Memory Match Challenge
To really flex your brain muscles the Memory Match Challenge is a pure test of concentration and potentially a rude awakening to actually how bad your memory really is. But don’t fret, it’s never too late to improve your memory unless you’ve lost your marbles altogether. This game is fundamentally the classic card game in which you flip over tiles and search for matching pairs before time runs out. Except this app is more interesting as it’s effectively a stage game whereby when you find all the matching pairs you progress to the next level. There are several memory game apps available, but this one is the most attractive, challenging and entertaining. It also works offline and when your handset is in flight mode.

Sequence Search
Sequence Search is a test of your maths skills. The aim of the game is to find the trend of arithmetic sequences for example 2,4,6 or 3,7,11 – what comes next? Enter your answer into the number grid and if you’re right you progress to the next level. The harder the level the more testing the sequences become.

Interesting, Fun, and Cool Facts
You learn something everyday – at least you will with this app. Crammed with interesting and educational facts about humans, space, history, animals and the world in general you will literally be a walking encyclopaedia. The app also includes weird and wonderful trivia as well and the programmers have done their best to put the fun into fact finding. Interesting, Fun and Cool Facts is exactly that; interesting, cool and fun. Fact.

Movie Wheel
Movie buffs can test their knowledge of the silver screen with this Movie Wheel game. Focusing purely on film trivia, this app is not too far removed from the classic TV game show Wheel of Fortune, whereby you need to spin the wheel to pick a letter which will help you solve the movie title. Landing on dollar signs wins you money whereby you can buy a vowel, or solve the film title and pick up the $1000 bonus. Here’s looking at you kid.

Detective
A brain game with a difference. Now you can be your own Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot as you roam from room to room solving cryptic clues to find out whodunit. It’s pretty much Cluedo on your iPhone, but with fun riddles and better graphics than a sketchy picture on a folding piece of cardboard.

Word Scramble
Here’s a fun and addictive game to play that will test your knowledge of words and improve your vocabulary – Word Scramble. Basically, you are given a word and the idea of the game is to make as many other words as you can by scrambling the letters around. The game has been optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch so you can play alone or with friends.

Animal Guesses
This is a useful game to help your skills of description and explanation. Unlike many other electronic games, Animal Guesses is a game you have to play with the program rather than against it. The idea is to think of an animal and describe the animal to the program. If the computer cannot guess the creature you are trying to describe you have to ask it questions and teach it how to recognise the animal you are trying to describe. The objective of the game may appear relatively simple, but the program has three sophisticated levels of decision making that includes hundreds of different animals and is more complex than you might imagine. The game is designed to improve clear thinking, forward planning and to improve on your skills when composing questions that make sense to the program. And not only that, you also learn more about the animal kingdom.

MountTrivia.com

Think you’re a know-it-all when it comes to general knowledge? Why not test yourself against other brainiacs with this competitive trivia game from MountTrivia.com. The game involves a select number of players who are then asked ten trivia questions on a wide variety of topics including geography, history and sport. The winner is the player to answer the most questions in the quickest time. Players must register to take part, though membership is free of charge.