Hey all I recently got my 2 kids a Nintendo DS Lite each (they'd been doing chores all year saving up for them) and a few games including "Dr Kawashima's Brain Training". For those of you who don't know what the game is I've cut&pasted the blurb below: Nothing about this game is ordinary, from the price to the way you hold the DS while playing it (vertically, as if you were reading a book). The basic idea is that you play through a series of puzzles each day, for about 10 minutes, and at the end of each session the "age" of your brain is calculated. The puzzles themselves range from simple maths questions to spot the difference, memorisation and comprehension. All of the answers are inputted either by drawing the answer on the touchscreen or speaking it into the DS’s in-built microphone. There’s also a multiplayer mode for up to 15 people where you can try and compete to record the youngest brain age. This game was designed in collaboration with Professor Ryuuta Kawashima, who believes that regular "brain exercises" can counteract forgetfulness, help train memory and creative thinking. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Image) diagrams that measured brain activity of 120 test subjects between the ages of 20 and 70 at the university's Future Science Collaborative Research Center show the difference in brain activity in a variety of situations. DS Brain Training takes the theories from Prof. Kawashima and runs with it. The software challenges players to perform a variety of exercises every day, from solving simple math problems to reading on-screen text out loud. Now I've been "playing" this game for a few days now and I have begun to realise that there is a massive similarity between the training exercises that this game gets you to perform and the way you "use" your brain when card counting. This supports my belief that learning and practicing card counting actually makes you more intelligent. It certainly improves memory, concentration and reaction times. So, make yourself smarter by card counting. Improve your card counting skills by playing Dr Kawashima's Brain Training. Cheers Reachy PS. I am not an employee of the Nintendo Corporation
Brain Games: I'm still curious how chip tracking 6 opponents in one's head is going. That of course in addition to one remembering their own totals. I know a number of members advocate and I guess employ it, but since the "average" is tracking seven different sequences of numbers in the general population tests of such things,,,,,well how's it going?
