<p>About 2 months ago I played around with the trial games on this “brain training” website and became absolutely addicted. I paid the $15 for an annual membership and can’t stop. You are only supposed to “train” 15 minutes per day but I find myself on the site for at least 45 minutes every day. Sometimes more. </p>
<p>The games are quite interesting. My favorite is Train of Thought and my nemesis is Pinball Directional. Anyone else up on this site?</p>
<p>Lol, I was until my membership expired. How are you paying $15 for the year? The best fee I can find is around $80, with a 25% coupon which makes approx. $60.</p>
<p>My favorite is Word Bubbles Rising. The koi pond makes me nuts.</p>
<p>Well, HarvestMoon, I am addicted now, thanks to you! I had been hearing ads and planning to look into this, but hadn’t gotten around to it. I went to the site, did the trial, was immediately hooked, and signed up for a year. I did about 7 games altogether. Didn’t get the ones you mentioned, but I did get Word Bubbles Rising. </p>
<p>I did really well on the raindrop game (solving short equations in drops), got all of them quickly (a bit hampered because I don’t have a number pad and had to use the numbers going across the top) and all of them right, except for a couple of typos. It was interesting to see that this was easy for me, and my mind was in high gear.</p>
<p>I was embarrassingly bad at Word Bubbles Rising! For some stems, I could type in word after word, for others, I could hardly think of any and just sat there for long periods of time. I would have thought I’d do well on this.</p>
<p>I found the one where you have to match the color meaning on the left with the color on the right difficult when the right color was in text that might be another color, but in one game I got the hang of it.</p>
<p>I was really good at the one where you put in the direction the middle bird is facing. </p>
<p>I was not as good as I would have thought at the one where you have to replicate a pattern of tiles. When the array became larger I made lots of mistakes.</p>
<p>Does anyone know whether this is really good for your brain or just a way to have fun?</p>
<p>I was too cheap to pay the membership to continue. Had fun doing the trial membership.</p>
<p>My middle son went through brain training called CogMed. It was supposed to help him with his ADHD. It wasn’t cheap. His doctor told me that Luminosity took advantage of the research CogMed did to develop their program to come up with a commercial version. My older son is now using Luminosity and thinks it is helpful (he has schizoaffective disorder, which has slowed his processing speed a LOT). He’s already had one neuropsych evaluation, and we may have him go through it again in a few months to see if Luminosity has made any difference.</p>
<p>If a lot of people on CC use this to become even smarter, I worry that it will cause a disturbance in the Force.</p>
<p>NYMom, if you click on “games” when you are done training at the top, you can choose “all games” and try every one they offer.</p>
<p>An app I prefer is Logic Games.</p>
Hi, I realize you wrote your comment a while ago, but I wonder if you might have add or similar ‘fast mind’ traits. I too have become attached to train of thought and I feel like part of the draw is this ‘training’ in keeping on top of things, something with which many busy moms and others are quite familiar. We’re you able to find out any more about the game? I’d be interested to know.
Research shows Portal 2 is more effective than Lumosity http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/portal-2-improves-cognitive-skills-more-lumosity-does-study-finds?vhvxIIko07dW2fkD.01
aqnother to try is elevate http://www.cnet.com/news/lumosity-vs-elevate-brain-training-apps/#
or Brain HQ http://www.brainhq.com/