Mind Games

Mindware Consulting, Inc

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

A great collection of brain training games. Mind Games is a great collection of games based in part on principles derived from cognitive tasks to help you practice different mental skills. This is the free, ad-supported, version of the hit brain training app. Mind Games includes nearly 3 dozen of Mindware’s brain training games (some of which allow you to play 3 times and require upgrading to play more). All games include your score history and graph of your progress. The games list shows a summary of your best games and today’s scores on all games. Using some principles from standardized testing, your scores are also converted to a comparison scale so that you can see where you need work and excel. You might also be able to notice the effects of various lifestyle factors on your performance through the score history.

Mind Games is also now available on iPhone/iPad and Windows.

Languages available: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, Japanese.

Description of Games and Theorized Abilities (not all games available in all languages):

Abstraction - Exercise your ability to quickly differentiate between words with a concrete vs. abstract meaning.

Attention Training Game - Exercise your attention. Based on the flanker attention task. Practice your ability to ignore competing information and processing speed.

Anticipation - Practice your ability to anticipate and respond rapidly.

Divided Attention I - Practice your ability to divide your attention and respond rapidly.

Face Memory - Memorize a group of faces and then see if you can recall them.

Math Star - Practice your basic arithmetic skills, speed, and attention to detail.

Memory Racer - Practice for your brain's working memory and processing speed.

Memory Flow - Practice your visual and verbal memory for the flow of events.

Memory Match - Practice your memory for completed tasks.

Mental Categories - Practice your processing speed and quick categorization skills.

Mental Flex - Practice your cognitive flexibility and ability to ignore competing information.

Path Memory - Practice your ability to memorize and reproduce paths.

Self-Ordered Learning for Objects - Memorize a sequence of objects using a sequence you determine.

Similarities Scramble - Exercise your knowledge of word relationships.

Spatial Memory - Memorize the locations of the tiles that flip over with increasing numbers of tiles.

Speed Trivia - Exercise your knowledge of general trivia and information.

Verbal Concepts - Exercise your ability to quickly identify conceptual categories.

Vocabulary Star - Exercise your vocabulary and spelling skills.

Vocabulary Power - An un-timed multiple choice vocabulary task.

Word Memory - Memorize 30 words and see if you can remember them.

Mind Games is intended to be brain challenging entertainment. No research has yet been conducted to determine if this app has cognitive benefits.

Ratings and reviews

Challenging and fun. A large variety of quizzes to choose from. I like that I can compare my scores to see if I am improving. I'm a senior and want to keep my brain sharp. My husband and I have had fun doing these together, taking turns with the same game to see who does best. I have also played this with my grandkids, it provided us with lots of laughs. Premium version is well worth the very low price.

I love the diversity of the games to target different mental skills, and the optional training center that uses your previous scores and amount of time between games to suggest your next one! I just played one they recently released. It was a little different, and fun, but they also asked for feedback. This is the kind of active, supportive development I like to see! 😁

Gradually deteriorating. Have new people taken over? Mind Games used to have a professional feel to the UI, despite having an annoying number of ads. Now the interface looks like it was designed by a 10 year old in the 1980s. The newer games seem not to be based on solid research. Needs rigorous usability testing. 6-year user, now uninstalled.

What's new

Exercise Your Brain! This is the free, ad-supported, version of the great collection of brain training games.
Recent changes:
3.4.8 Fixed issue causing games to exit while playing.
3.4.7 Updated scoring data for newest games. Updated code to enable development of new games.
3.4.6 Easily manage your subscription from the settings screen.