The popular executive function game Tower of Hanoi has been widgetized for you!  Share it as you will. Have fun!.

Before you try to figure out how the Egyptians built the pyramids, try out your problem-solving skills with this game. In this game, you must configure colored rings on a series of pegs in order to match a target. You can move the top-most ring on each peg to another peg, but you can only move one ring at a time and you can never put a larger ring on top of a smaller ring. From time to time, a given peg may not hold any rings: you may move any available ring you like on to an open space.

How did you do on the  previously posted (Friday July 17th) logical reasoning challenge called  Writing in the Stars?

Here’s the answer:

1. recluse

2. amateur

3. attache

4. steeple

5. starter

6. rupture

Cheers!

We have launched the latest brain training exercise book, Protein Shakes for the Brain, developed by founders Michel  Noir, Ph.D and Bernard Croisile,  MD Neurology, Ph.D. & HAPPYneruron’s Chief Scientist. Discover 90 new games and exercises to train your brain over the summer months on the go.

Protein Shakes for the Brain, is packed full of exercises for every ability - Just Starting Out (Easy), Getting Fit (Medium), and Iron Man (Hard). In each area there’s a great variety to provide that cross training exposure your brain craves. Here’s a game of logical reasoning from the Iron Man section. Try it out. Take as long as you need. Here’s how it works: Of the nine words listed below, place six of them in the star. The arrows indicate the direction of the word in the star. Can you do it?

How did you do?

Check out the answer on Sunday July 19th at  Writing in the Stars Answer.

Want to practice this game some more? Login today and play it online.

When  I asked our developers to create a Cognitive Exercise Widget that can be shared from person to person over the web, that very afternoon it was done. When I expressed surprise, “It’s only software :-)!”  they told me.

So, click to play and forward to your friends for the joy of sharing. And, as always, tell us what you think.

Do you know the lingo of the Founding Fathers? This language skills puzzle will put it to the test.

Unscramble the anagrams and assemble the identified letters in sequence 1 though 12.

The results will be posted here by Monday, Feb 16th at 12 noon Pacific Time, the  day our nation observes President’s Day.

No peeking until you are done!

The 15 Fruits & Vegetables from yesterday’s Splitwords puzzle are these:

beetroot – carrot – grape – kiwi – kumquat – lemon – mango – melon – mulberry – parsley – pepper – pumpkin – raspberry – rhubarb – spinach

Did you get them all?

You’re searching for the name of a flower. It’s on the tip of your tongue. You know it starts with “am…” What is it?

The brain area exercised in this Splitwords game is the left temporal lobe, which gets activated when information retrieval is called upon. Splitwords helps you practice to quickly retrieve words from your language repertoire. Each syllable can be seen as a phonetic cue that facilitates word retrieval. So, think in syllables!

So as quickly as possible, form 15 complete words by combining syllables from the game table.  Watch out, each syllable can only be used once!  All words belong to the category Fruit & Vegetable.

nach         gra        go         beet        rhu

berry         spi        ca          rrot        pump

me             pe        per         ki          kum

quat          mul      berry       lon        kin

man          wi         pars       le           pep

rasp          barb      mon      ley         root

Check back tomorrow to confirm the answer!

I took an AOL poll this week and discovered that when offered a choice of three things that people do to reduce their risk of getting Alzheimer’s Disease, more people were inclined to play brain games than exercise or take supplements. If you consider brain games, check out the benefits of doing with coach guidance from Happy Neuron’s virtual scientist.

AOL Poll Question: What do you do to reduce your risk?

Play brain games                   39%
Take vitamin supplements      36%
Exercise                               25%

Brain Teaser of the Day: Today’s brain teaser is called Alphabetical Disorder. Your task is to compare the different writing characters from each other in the image below. Take no more than 30 seconds to find out which ones are present in the right group and not in the left group.

What’s the point? In addition to your visual memory, this exercise primarily stimulates your attention, which is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Further, this task will stimulate your concentration and your visual analysis of the shapes of characters. Visual scanning skills and your ability to attend to detail is put to the test.

What’s the Answer? Can you figure it out?