I brought a couple of Nintendo DS games back in September and Brain Age 2 was one of them. Before I bought the game I thought Brain Age was just some game with many puzzles to keep you from being bored, which was why I bought it. It is true that it has a lot of puzzles, like word games and math problems. They are not tough but trying to do them as fast as possible had prove to be a challenge.
I remember the first time I tried calculating my “brain age” - the age of your brain, which doesn’t necessary equal to your actual age - it was 77 years old. *lol* The series of tests it has you complete is to see how fast your brain works. For example one of them is playing rock, paper, scissors. There’ll be one of those on the screen and an instruction to either win or lose. You’ll have to call out your answer based on the instruction given. I can’t believe how slow my reaction was when I first started. I can see rock, and I’m supposed to win so obviously I need to call our paper. However, when I read the instruction and look at the symbol it took a few seconds for my brain to register it. Maybe I’m getting old. Anyhow, after completing some training my brain is now 37! Such wonderful improvement!
Oh ya I’ve also found something fun that I’ve never thought I’d do and that’s sudoku [数独] - “a logic based puzzle which the the objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes contains the digits from 1 to 9, only one time each.” I hated math and numbers all thought elementary and high school so I didn’t think I’d actually like playing sudoku. I’ve been playing it everyday, just before I sleep [it helps puts me to sleep actually *haha*] and also on the bus when I have a long ride. I’m thinking of buying more sudoku games for DS and now Al thinks I’m a nerd. 
