Mind games are the newest way to pass the time and they can be educational too. Gradeschoolers up to high school age can really benefit from Mind stretchers, a grouping of testing games at Queendom, the land of tests. Some students freeze at the thought of tests and these fun games or tests would help them go through that fear, arriving at the other side to the realization that tests can be a fun. It is almost a challenge to be undertaken. Tests can now invoke a response asking oneself what do I have to do to ace this test instead of just kicking the can and strolling away.

Mind stretchers start with simple word matching or groupings and ramp up to math word problems. Not enough can be said about word problems being a stumbling block to many students. They either haven't been taught or have mind-blocked out the math meanings of many of the words in the word problems that enable them to speedily come to the answers. All this can be found in the Top Five section. The other sections deal with matching pictures and patterns and can be great if you want to improve your powers of observation. We take too much for granted and even though we see things we really don't observe in nearly the detail that we think we do. Not sure? Check out the Mind Toys section and see for yourself.

If these seem to tame for you got to Braingle. You will first find the Most Popular Teasers, but the major categories are Trivia, Mentalrobics and Games.
The Brain teasers can be anything from Optical Illusions to Riddles and these have been submitted by other Registered users. Getting an account is free and records where you've been on the site as well as allows you the privilege of submitting a game or teaser yourself. There are Math word problem teasers as well as Cryptography teasers. There are cryptic messages hidden in the stories and it is your job to decode it. Don't forget about the Probability and Science teasers. These can get pretty hairy, especially the Probability teasers. Trivia includes questions concerning Technology, Nature, Hollywood, Geography, History, and more.

Yes, tests and games can increase our brain power, as long as you know where to go to enhance it.

at school the "student advisor" takes this mind games class (its for dumb people)
i dont no wot they do cos i dont do it but aparantly its boring, lol

ill pass on "mind games" ive got better stuff to do, im working on thousands of images for my website.

How about trying out your brain power vs your brain age. There are some fun tests at myBrainTrainer.com. However, after you take the evaluation you are encouraged to join for 9.95 for 3 months or 29.95 for an entire year.

If the PC is not your cup of tea, try out Brain Age by Nintendo.This is the first one out. There will be more to follow. Evidently there is alot of liberty taken to judge the player, so be prepared for it. There are tests to take here as well although you can have up to four players. You can even try Sudoku on the Sony PlayStation. Maybe the playstation technology is coming to grips with an older generation and seeing that they have something for them as well.

Sounds like a nice thing to do in your freetime. Except that, like Sten, I don't really have any free time. Got too many projects in the works, and can't even fit in all the personal projects I want to do in my freetime.... i could use a 48 hour day

lol a 48 hour day would be nice sometimes
i could get more done.

Sounds fun. I've been to Braingle before; I love doing their brainteasers when I have time (which isn't often, especially now that school has started). I'm not one of the people who fear tests. Most of the time, I'm okay with them, just worried that I haven't studied everything I needed to or that my teacher decided to just take leave from the curriculum and ask questions on a completely different subject. The only tests I fear are math tests (math just isn't my subject) and tests I haven't studied for (rarely have those anymore).

(I want a 48-hour day too! Maybe I'll finally get a good nine hours of sleep for once, if the day was that long. xD)

Serena

I love games which I can analyze and disect things from another persons mind. Games like that in general keeps my brain fresh and feels like im actually using it and forcing it to concentrate and focus. Mind games take a huge toll in life because you always will have to read your partner or the other person that you are communicating with because their is a slight chance that the person you are communicating with isnt telling you want to hear and may also keep something from what you really want to know. By learning the art of mind analysis and ask specific questions to that person you can then get them to slip what they are hiding from you in the first place. Many techniques can be found online in which I looked into awhile back. But the tools in reading a mind and getting it to respond to your is like powers of a psychic or should I say an X-men, xavier...haha, but yea nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.