Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1243 in Software
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2008-02-08
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Have fun while improving your brain power!

New scientific research shows that we can improve the health and function of our brains with the right mental training in just 10 to 15 minutes a day.

Mindscape's Bigger Brain Trainer helps you improve your mental sharpness, whatever age you are. Divided into five distinct areas; memory, logical, numerical, spatial and verbal; this program will provide you with a broad and thorough mental workout that will really help boost your brain's performance. With unlimited questions and engaging exercises, Mindscape's Bigger Brain Trainer is the ideal way to return to mental fitness.

15 NEW puzzle & game activities Split Words, Word Ladder, Word Wise, Number Balance, Pyramid Sum, Soroban, Box Packer, Maze Runner, Shape Match, Missing Object, Route Finder, Shape Shifter, Code Breaker, Compass Point and Domino

Whatever your age, Bigger Brain Trainer is designed to help you improve memory, increase concentration and enhance logic.

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Customer Reviews

Waste of money
I don't normally buy things without checking them out first by looking for reviews, but I did with this. What a mistake! As someone else points out, some of the games are ridiculous (eg Word Ladder, which is impossible to get good at because it simply makes up new words). The scoring is flawed and it's just really poorly thought out.
I orginally bought it to use with my class at school, but there's no way I can justify them spending time using such a questionable product. Mastersoft's Brain School is much better.

Where do you start?
Where do you start? This seems to have been built from a few good ideas. Most of the games are good, but the product is hampered by glitches. Puzzles that take no brainpower whatsoever to solve take an embarressingly long time to complete because of the interface. The word puzzles are embarrassing, using obscure words like "ejecta" or have no vowels. This doesn't make it a mental exercise, it makes it a guessing game.

The statistics it gives you are totally flawed. It gives you your results from each brain test in a series of bar graphs, with no avarage. This wouldn't be a problem if the games were consistant, but they vary in difficulty to the extent that your results are meaningless.
Your progress is worked out by the time you take to complete the puzzle and a bonus for how hard the puzzle is. As far as I can see, the only improvement I've seen is because of these difficulty bonuses. If you start again, you watch your score drop back to the starting point.

In short, this has some good ideas, but the developement of the software is sorely lacking. If you're thinking of getting a brain trainer and don't want to spend the earth, try "Test and Improve Your Memory" It is a much better product.