Everyone seems to be talking about this “game” — “Brain Age” for the Nintendo DS. It’s interesting, I guess. It tests your brain age by doing a Stroop test (mine is 59), and then offers you a few other time tests, all of which you can get through in a handful of minutes. It loads up more tests as you go — I just got the game so I don’t know the pattern yet.

I’m having to re-learn how to write the number 8. It keeps reading it as a 6 or a 0, heh. My failure rate on a couple of the tests are higher than they ought to be because of my sloppy 8’s. In Sudoku, if you write the wrong number and quickly click “Zoom out” (”confirm” basically), it counts as an error, which means a 20 *minute* penalty. My usual Sudoku times are around 8-9mins (on easy-ish puzzles I’m sure), so that’s pretty significant.

Aside from my 8 issue, I think this is neat software. It’s nice in that you don’t have to dedicate any significant amount of time to it. You can even take breaks from it if you need to, although the shortness of the tests makes that less necessary, heh. Compare that to games like “New Super Mario Bros” where you can’t save until you beat certain levels or perform some one-time-only (per area, anyway) coin expenditures.