Mind Games

Get ready to train your mind and take your cognitive abilities to the next level. Mind Games is the perfect collection of games for those who want to improve their mental skills while having fun. This brain training app, which is the free, ad-supported version, features nearly 3 dozen games that are built on principles derived from cognitive tasks. The games are designed to help you practice different mental skills, and some allow you to play 3 times with an upgrade required to play more.

With Mind Games, you can keep track of your score history and graph your progress as you improve your performances. The games list provides a summary of your best games and today's scores on all games. Using principles from standardized testing, your scores are converted to a comparison scale so that you can see where you excel and where you need work. You can also evaluate the influence of various lifestyle factors on your performance through the score history available.

Besides Android, Mind Games is now also available on iPhone/iPad and Windows. It supports various languages including English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, and Japanese.

This app features an excellent variety of games that are tailored towards exercising specific cognitive abilities. Abstraction game, for instance, helps you differentiate between words with a concrete vs. abstract meaning more quickly. The Attention Training Game exercises attention and helps you ignore competing information. Anticipation game trains you to respond rapidly and improves your ability to anticipate, while the Divided Attention 1 game trains you to divide your attention and respond rapidly. Face Memory game lets you memorize a group of faces, and then you will be quizzed to see if you can recall them.

Other games included are Math Star, Memory Racer, Memory Flow, Memory Match, Mental Categories, Mental Flex, Path Memory, Self-Ordered Learning for Objects, Similarities Scramble, Spatial Memory, Speed Trivia, Verbal Concepts, Vocabulary Star, Vocabulary Power, and Word Memory. The complete set of games is not available in all languages.

Mind Games is intended to give you brain-challenging entertainment, and although no research has been conducted to determine if this app has cognitive benefits, it’s undeniably a fun and reliable way to flex your mental muscles.