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Mind Quiz Your Brain Coach | 
 enlarge | From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.74
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 7356
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.1 x 0.7
MPN: 16336
Model: 16336
UPC: 008888163367
EAN: 0008888163367
ASIN: B000MNOYVQ
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new, factory sealed.
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| Features:
| • | Brain Age Checking Mode evaluates your brain age by making you solve questions once a day | | • | A variety of unique brain training programs and difficulty settings will suit anyone, from the beginners to advanced users | | • | Supervised by Dr. Kawashima, Japan's foremost authority of Functional Brain Imaging |
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Product Description
In Mind Quiz, you'll participate in 49 exercises that strengthen your brain muscles. Practice lessons and learning games will make you smarter as you build your abilities in calculation, reflex, judgement and memory.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Can you spell confidence? September 9, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The main difference between that Mind Quiz and Brain Age is the "grading" system. In Brain Age, you get a letter grade; it made me (and my entire family) feel stupid--it's ridiculously hard to get that A+. But in Mind Quiz, you get a number, and all the grading is based on how old you are. With Brain Age, my mother, who is 52, gave up because she couldn't get better than a B, but Mind Quiz tells her she has the brain of a 39-year old. Talk about a confidence booster! You get a lot more statistics with Mind Quiz: brain alertness and mind activation. It recommends mini-games for you to play based on how well you do the assessment tests. The speech and number-writing recognition is a little behind Nintendo, but overall Mind Quiz is a much more satisfying game to play. Two thumbs up!
Well done, a few minor flaws June 27, 2007
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
In general, this is a pretty good game. The concept of having several games is definitely appealing and the explanations that go along with the brain age and brain stress degree are well written and informative. Nevertheless, there are a few caveats. It appears that games that require one to use voice commands leave a bit to be desired. Despite speaking clearly and distinctly, the game still often does not recognize answers - Case in point, one of the games has the player look at a picture of an apple (for example) with the word "banana" written underneath. Now, the game commands the player to SAY THE NAME OF THE FRUIT (as opposed to saying the word that can be read underneath). Obviously, this is a little "trick" designed to get the player to say what is seen without the distraction of the written word - not difficult but a sharpening tool. Nevertheless, the game is rather poor in this regard because despite very clearly enunciating "apple" multiple times, the game never recognized it. Different volumes and different tones of voice were used and we tried doing so at different distances from the microphone.
There should also be a touch numerical keypad for games that require insertion of a number. The game does not read handwriting very well and often mistakes a "6" for a "0", et cetera.
Nevertheless, this is still a good "brain sharpening" tool that can be entertaining as well. Something else that is appealing is having to think about two things at once. For instance, while performing a puzzle, the player must remember to keep an eye on the left hand side of the screen to watch for the dog that is running up the side. The dog must not be permitted to move into the upper screen. Thus, the individual will have the train of thought interrupted for the mindless task of moving the dog back into the lower screen with the stylus and the brain can learn to work despite some everday distractions. Very clever addition.
Seems that this game is good for both the older and younger crowd and is very good overall.
 Not all the hype June 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game is terrible because it requires the use of ones voice which Nintendo DS does work well with many times. I highly recommend Big Brain Academy instead becuase it requires no voice recognition, it is more challenging, and better games. Do not waste your money on this one.
 Not worth the money... June 6, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is nowhere near the quality of Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. The number of mini games is pretty limited. And they're not fun to play.
Great New Brain Game May 12, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I love this game. I like Mind Quiz much better than Brain Age and Brain academy. I like the graphics on Mind Quiz. I find myself playing certain games just to help with stress.
One thing that is troublesome is on the 2 games that you need to write in the answer, it has trouble reading the numbers. The voice game also has problems recognizing words. Other than that GREAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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