Multi-tasking Brain Exercise Game - Brain Waves
Calling all seasoned gamers, online keyboard whizzes, and mouse-clicking masters of all ages - put your brain power, multitasking skills, and reflexes to the test with a series of tricky virtual tasks designed to challenge your reactions, speed, perception, coordination, memory, accuracy, and multi-tasking ability! Brain Waves is an awesome, highly challenging skill-based puzzle game where you have to complete 7 difficult and thought-provoking mini-games designed to exercise your mind and test your awakeness. Played on their own, the mini-games are pretty simple in theme; For example, typing quickly, remembering shapes, fast-mouse clicking tasks, multi-tasking. However, when you play the interactive exercises all in sequence, you end up with a good reflection of how good your reactions and online gaming abilities really are.
This innovative and unusual brain teaser activity should prove a good match for young children, teens and grownups who like to test themselves with fun online IQ challenges, tough thinking puzzles and problem-solving tasks. Your mouse-clicking skills and typing abilities really have to be at their best to score high. Played as a learning game, Brain Waves could also help to improve a young child’s observation skills, quick reactions and hand-eye coordination abilities. Adults & seniors could find this game to be a good mind workout. For more seasoned gamers, you can earn bragging rights over your friends & family with a high score! Happy eye "ping pong"!
How to Play: Using your computer mouse or touchpad, Left Click ‘Play Game’ on the main menu screen to get right into the action. You have to complete 7 different challenging mini-puzzles. Click the "Continue" button each time to play them in sequence. You earn a score out of 100 in each, and after you have completed all 7; you receive a final Overall Score. If you want to play any of the mini-puzzles on their own, click on the ‘Single Events’ button on the main menu screen.
Speed: All 26 letters of the alphabet are laid out on the game screen exactly as they are on a standard QWERTY keyboard. A sequence of keys are randomly highlighted on the game screen. You have to quickly press the corresponding key on your computer.
Accuracy: You are shown a series of circles, squares, and rectangles. With your mouse cursor, you have to click as close to the center of each shape as you can.
Perception: You are shown a grid of squares, with a flickering circular light appearing in the center of random squares. After the light flashing sequence is finished, you have to click on the square that the light last appeared in. After each go (there are 12 tests in this puzzle), the grid becomes larger, and the light moves more quickly.
Reactions: A series of circles appear at random places around the game screen. Quickly hover your mouse cursor over a circle to eliminate it, then move quickly to eliminate the next one that appears, and so on.
Multitask: There are two mini-games in one here. On the left of the game screen, you have to match the complicated shape at the bottom of the screen to one of the 4 multiple choices above it. Sometimes the shapes above are a different color / at a different angle. On the right of the game screen, you have to click on the correct answer to a simple addition or subtraction sum. The sum is on the bottom, and the 4 possible answers are above it. There are 2 timers running along each side of the screen. Make sure neither timer runs out by quickly switching between the two tasks and answering correctly.
Memory: A series of circles appear quickly, one by one, on the game screen. You have to click on each in the exact order that the circles appeared. The number of circles increases as you progress.
Coordination: A large sphere moves around the game screen. You have to keep your computer mouse cursor within the sphere as it moves around. Sounds easy – but every few seconds the game screen inverts itself, and the cursor moves in the opposite direction to where it normally whould (i.e. if you move your mouse down, the cursor moves up).
If this Flash-based game no longer works on IE11 or Chrome browser on your PC / MAC, try playing Firefox browser with Adobe Flash player installed.