Product Description

Mind Quiz helps you improve your thinking skills, courtesy of Dr. Kawashima, Japan's foremost authority on mental functions. Through a set of challenging games, you'll stimulate your brain into firing more efficiently. Measure your "Brain Age," keep your mind sharp and have a great time doing it!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5080 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 68345
• Released on: 2007-03-13
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• 49 exercises from 4 genres of calculation, reflex, judgement, and memory
• Brain Age Checking Mode compares your actual age to brain age, as a touchstone of your training
• Fun new mental activities like Challenge Mode, mock exams and the lovely Healing Gallery
• A variety of unique brain training programs and difficulty settings will suit anyone, from the beginners to advanced users

Customer Reviews

Recommended by Aging Hipster
Having used this for a week, already my brain feels bigger, and when I flex it in front of the ladies, well, let's just say size does matter . . .

OK, so that wasn't true. But this is: I find the puzzles challenging, engaging, and interesting. I like the fact you can track progress, and the fact there are multiple levels, so you can move up if you need more of a challenge. Between the accuracy and time scores, the game keeps challenging you.

While this isn't the best game I have ever played, it's certainly entertaining. My kids like it, too.

If it happens to stretch my brain a bit, well then, that's just a bonus.

Really Great!
I bought Mind Quiz because I understand that it not only helps you be more alert, but it also may prevent or lessen Alzheimer symptoms. (I am trying to be proactive here) It is not only fun and just challenging enough for you to be interested but not so challenging that you are frustrated and give up. It also keeps track of your daily quizzes and reminds you when you have yet to do a quiz that day.
Great fun, you can spend hours on this and it seems like minutes....burnt dinner anyone??? :)

Simplified graphics, not enough fun to make you replay
This games loads easily using Windows Vista & doesn't even need the CD once the only 40 Meg are loaded. (Graphics are the type to be found from Windows '95.) I did put this on two different Vista computers, both Intel & both could not load sound due to needing Direct X 7 & even after loading the newest version it still did not. Everything else works fine.
The graphics are very simple, but clean & easy interface.
The menu options are:
Choose player, Practice (choose a specific game), Daily brain test, Progress (chart). Getting started (usual window style help guide). There's also a sound on/off, back, help & quit game.
Games:
3 types in every category, detailed instructions on each game, 5 levels in each game, all games are timed (adds excitement)
Verbal -
Anagrams, Spelling test, word search
Numerical -
Math arithmetic, number crunch (choose correct symbol to make equation correct), number sequence
Spatial -
4 colors (make pattern w/o same colors touching), color matching (slightly advanced color/shape pair finding), fold the cube (match the flat colored cube w/correct multi choice)
Memory -
Follow the leader (9 color Simon), matching pairs (using b&w simple shapes), memory grid (place symbol cards in correct sequence on grid)
Logic -
Color tiles (match many colored titles so same colors touch on grid), Connexagon (spin hexagon wheels so you transfer colors), Sudoko

This game does NOT have the looks, game play, graphics, or sense of fun the trailer for the Nintendo DS shows.
For real screen shots go to ubi's download store area for PC games under: digitalstore. ubi. com /0/3280/ product/ Buy- Mind- Quiz- Download (delete all spaces)

The easy menu system is nice, the timed format adds a little stimulation to what could be very boring games. Brain Spa & Brain Challenge are MUCH more fun w/cheery graphics & harder games that have better programing to suit each person's level in each game. Also, Big Brain Academy on Wii & DS is also much more fun & am sure many Brain Age & Focus games on the Nintendo DS are as well. This is made by Ubisoft which has made many games for Nintendo & a good company.