17 Games to Exercise the Mind (Adults and Children)

Surely you know the typical pastimes to exercise the mind, like the soup of letters, or the crosswords.

Nowadays, although you can still find it in newspapers or magazines, there are many different ones that you can get via the internet, or download it as an application through the mobile.

The brain is flexible and you can train it to function more efficiently through strategy games, skills, memory games and mental agility, etc.

It is now known that the brain is formed, organized and developed throughout life; Is what is known as brain plasticity And one of its repercussions is that mental / cognitive skills can be trained throughout life.

One of the best and funniest ways is with Games to exercise the mind / brain.

These mental games improve blood circulation to your brain, speed the mind and reduce the effects of aging.

Although mental exercises improve cognitive abilities in general, some improve specific abilities: memory, concentration, attention, response time, verbal and non-verbal reasoning...

In addition to all this, training your brain is associated with a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease and higher neuronal density.

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The key to receiving the greatest benefits is to be consistent and practice them several minutes a day.

Next I leave you several games to work on mental abilities and activate your mind. They serve for children, adolescents, adults and seniors. Some will serve you to practice them right here while you read and others will serve you to put them into practice in your daily life.

Mathematical reasoning

The riddles are also very good for training the mind. You can find books about them. Specifically this serves to train mathematical reasoning.

The circuit

A ferrari is taking a tour of the Jerez circuit 24 minutes. The mercedes takes 21. It is 14:12 hours and the Mercedes forward the ferrari. When will you advance it again?

Dinner

After a dinner you have left a 10% tip to the waiter and the taxi driver who took you home 2 euros.

If the taxi has cost you exactly half the dinner and you have 2 euros of a ticket of 20 euros how much did you have dinner?

The Extraterrestrial Planet

We have traveled to an extraterrestrial planet and we discover beings with different number of eyes: some have 4, 6 others, 8 others, 12 others.

If in the extraterrestrial city there are the same number of aliens and the total number of eyes is 5120, how many extraterrestrials are there?

Number Square

Square of numbers

Place the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 in the empty boxes so that the sum of each column, row and diagonal is 65.

Logic and ingenuity

The two tribes of Atlantis

In the lost city of Atlantis there are two tribes: Atlanteans and Atlanteans. Atlantos always lie and the Atlanteans always tell the truth.

You find yourself walking with a man from a tribe and in the distance you see a child from the other tribe. You ask the latter:

What kind of tribe are you? The child responds but you do not hear him. Then you ask your companion of the other tribe who says â?? he has said that he is an Atlantean.

Of what tribe is the man and what tribe the child?

Memory

Towns

1) Try to memorize these cities

Memory game cities

2) Answer these questions

  • What city is the top box in the center?
  • What city is the central square on the right?
  • What city is the one in the box below on the left?
  • ...

People

1) Memorize the following row of people:

Memory game people

2) Answer these questions:

  • Where is the woman in the yellow scarf?
  • Where is the tallest man?
  • How is the man in position 4?
  • How is the man in the last position?

The rabbit that reproduces itself

Let's say that a kind of rabbit can reproduce alone and has one child a day; The next day there will be two rabbits, the other four, the other eight... If after 30 days we filled a cage of rabbits, how many days would it take to fill up if you start with two rabbits?

In this article You can find other exercises to improve memory.

Verbal intelligence

Mixed words

Next I present 4 word blends. With each mix you can write the name of a city. For example: DARMDI (MADRID).

  • ABDEPSTU
  • AGINPRSU
  • ABELRSSU
  • AELMNORT

Form word

Form the longest word you can by moving from box to box and in any direction. You can start where you want and use each letter only once.

Form the word

Group games of reasoning (children and adults)

Guess the animal

The object of this game is to guess the name of an animal using different clues.

1) A player thinks of an animal without telling others. Then he says one of his characteristics by the phrase"I am thinking of an animal that..."(for example has big ears).

2) The other players take turns trying to guess. If they fail, the player who has thought of the animal will give another clue and will pass to the next player.

3) The player who guesses the animal happens to be the one who thinks of another animal for others to guess.

This game can be adapted to adults or teenagers by choosing another theme. Likewise, tracks for children should be visual (color, size) and for people older abstract concepts (what they do, how they are, their behavior...).

Abc

This game serves to improve reasoning, memory and language skills.

1) The group chooses a topic.

2) People in the group take turns thinking about words that begin with letters of the alphabet (starting with A).

For example, for the theme"beach": A (sand), B (boat), C (crab)...

3) If someone gets stuck in a letter it can happen.

If you want to make it harder, you have the option of giving more than one turn to the alphabet to make word search more complicated.

Traditional games

If you are traditional, you can always choose one of these games. They are simple and you can play them in applications for smartphones (many you can download free).

  • Crossword.
  • Sudoku.
  • Reading.
  • Puzzles.
  • Video game.

In the next you have to find the words of the left column in horizontal, vertical or diganonal. The missing words hide a secret message.

In the below you have to find two identical pieces.

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Mental agility

The 3 toast

You need to make toast for three people. Each one wants a slice of toast.

toaster

You have a toaster that can roast at the same time two toasts on one side (not two sides of a single toast). You need a minute to toast a slice on one side.

What is the minimum time you need to toast the three slices on both sides and what is the best shape?

James Bond Phrase

Can you decode the following James Bond phrase?

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Perceptual speed

Can you find the man in the photo in 3 seconds?

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According to medical experiments if you find the man in 3 seconds your brain is more developed than that of normal people.

If you found it in 1 minute, congratulations! Your brain has a normal development.

If you find it in less than 3 minutes, it seems your brain is working a little slow.

But calm, look carefully and you will end up solving it.

Attention

In these drawings you will have to find the 5 differences.

Find ten difference game

Find ten difference game 1

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Here is a video with a summary of the article:

What answers have you found? Do you know other mental exercises?


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