Any suggestions for brain exercises?
 

What do you do to keep your brain busy? I find that it really does seem to help sharpen my sometimes dull thinking process (or maybe I just think it does). Do you know of good websites for puzzles and such? I like crossword puzzles and word games, and I'm not very good at number puzzles like Sodoku.

Thanks!

hi yam

here is thread from the RSD forum. it has some links i put there and some from other members.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=4617

i'll look in my favorites and see what else i can find.

I COULD USE SOME BRAIN EXERCISES.............

I SWEAR THAT I CAN HEAR MY BRAIN RUSTING AT TIMES AND THE CELLS PLOTTING AGAINST ME. :mad:
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN THOUGH............... :confused:

I WRITE THE STATES AND CAPITALS FOR THE FUN OF IT.
IT ALWAYS MAKES ME WORK THE BRAIN MUSCLES.
JUDE

heyjude, if you like math, or even if you don't ;) this site is family favorite. lots of brainteasers.

Cool math 4 kids .com - Online Math Games

I am terrible at Soduku

Easy ;) Crossword puzzles and Word Find books are good...grocery store magazine racks.

Yahoo Games

Arcade Games
http://games.yahoo.com/arcade-games

Astropop...get those fingers moving while also working those brain cells.

Dynomite...ditto above...and you can play it online/free

Zuma...ditto above...and you can play it online/free

Board Games
http://games.yahoo.com/board-games

Mah Jong...5 games you can play online

Puzzles
http://games.yahoo.com/puzzle-games

Bejeweled...can play online

Collapse Crunch
Super Collapse 2
Super Collapse 3

Jewel Quest

Card Games
http://games.yahoo.com/card-games

There are tons of games on Yahoo that you can play for free .

I have all the above, but I use Real Arcade
http://www.realarcade.com/gameguide
You can play most of them for 60 minutes/trail. Then purchase if you want to.

Curious,
You picked a perfect site for me to work out my brain. Math is a challenge to me big-time. So I will have some really great looking head muscles from this site. Any math challenges my brain to the max. I will print some things out to take to Mayo. I am sure that there will be a lot of down time. Math has always teased my brain. :)
Thanks friend,
Jude

This site - http://www.addictinggames.com/

Has a TON of games that are all free. There are several catagories (including a puzzle catagory).

My other favorite online games site is pogo.com They also have several free games in several catagories, and I like them better than the Yqhoo games because the graphics and options are much better in my opinion.

Hope that helps :)

Liz

there are lots of ways
 

to exercise our brains. The more challanging the better, but the problem with most of them is that your body doesn't get much exercise, What we need is a good "two for one" program where your mind and body get a workout. Who wants to have all their marbles shiny and poised to solve the problems of the world if you can't even get to the bathroom by themselves any more? "Use it or lose it" applys to both the cerebral and the packaging it comes in. Scrabble anyone? Maybe we can attach something to our treadmill so we can work everything at once.

Scrabble
 

Yes Rosebud, I'm ready for Scrabble. I've seen my score much improved since taking it up again. I wish that PD people would have yearly meetings so that they can exercise the challenges they pose on this board. I also like Jeapardy as a mind game. I've tried to get on that program a number of times and always come close but never have made it. I wonder how they would react to a trembling player in their midst. I also try to memorize a new poem every week (a short poem). This week it's Jenny kiss'd me when we met

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss'd me.

If anyone reading this is named Jenny it's just a coincidence...or maybe not.

I don't do well with Wheel of Fortune and I haven't played Chess for a long time but I find that work can give my brain a good workout. I joke with my colleagues that when I arrive at work I turn on the computer and wait for an idea to float into my head. I then turn it over and, if it's not a good idea, jettison it. Indeed, I sometimes spend the better part of a good day dumping bad ideas. At day's end I am frequently up to my neck in ideas that, in the words of someone who's name I've forgotten, 'ain't worth a pot of warm spit."

But I enjoy the company of my mind. It's the only thing that accompanies me to the shower; I've never heard it snore and it never borrows money. Sometimes it wanders off and plays with my Grandson but it never wanders very far.

Well, I guess I've said enough. Don't you have something better to do then read this stuff?

Lloyd

Just remembering people's names
 

:confused: is enough challenge for my brain.
Seriously, I can remember all kinds of technical, scientific stuff, but coming up with someone's name on command is very often tough for me. Sometimes it pops right up, but lately it seems to be getting harder. Fortunately, seeing the person usually makes it much easier, so that I'm usually not embarassed in that way when I meet them face to face

Burkle, the person who first made the statement about the worth of "a pot of warm spit" was former Vice-President John Nance Garner, and the subject of that description was the office of Vice-President.

Like Thelma, I, too thank you for your post.