The role of thinking in our lives is great. And we should not be under the illusion that it is given to us as talent from birth. It can and should be developed as a skill in childhood. And some games like Tetris and puzzles will help you with this perfectly.
Thinking allows you to solve various problems, make the right decisions and act in our world. And the best part is that it is also possible to develop its speed, depth, flexibility, and meaningfulness.
In this selection, we have collected applications that will help to “pump up” a little bit the different sides of your thinking.
Sudoku
Sudoku is a classic puzzle game. A very interesting game where you have to think, especially on high difficulty levels. The game itself is quite easy to learn and it can handle even a child. So, you need to get on the playing field of such a set of numbers from 1 to 9, so that in nine small squares, into which the big square is divided, they are not repeated exactly as well as not repeated vertically and horizontally. Sudoku by Easybrain stands out from the huge number of its competitors with its minimalist pleasant interface, daily tasks, statistics of your games, and six different difficulty levels.
Lumosity is a well-designed collection of puzzles for training different thinking processes, such as memory, attentiveness, and quick decision making. All games are divided into 7 categories:
- “speed” trains reaction and quick decision making;
- “memory” will test your ability to quickly memorize various information;
- “attention” will throw you with tasks, where you will have to follow certain processes and not miss anything;
- “flexibility” will test how your brain reacts to the constant change in the subject of focus;
- “problem-solving,” as you can easily guess, will give you a variety of curious problems to solve;
- “Language” is more suitable if you already know enough English and want to expand your vocabulary;
- “Math,” respectively, will test how well you did in school.
Also, Lumosity will offer to create days when it will send you notifications inviting you to complete a couple of tasks. According to the developer, all the puzzles have been developed in collaboration with more than 40 researchers from universities around the world.
NeuroNation
A very well-designed collection of many, at first glance, easy tasks. However, when solving them, it turns out that everything is not as easy as it seems. An important feature of NeuroNation is the detailed statistics compiled from your solutions. The developer notes that his app has a positive effect on brain development.
1010! color
1010! color is a great puzzle game that doesn’t rush you with timers or “urgent tasks,” you’re free to think about the
gameplay for as long as you see fit. The task is the same – to collect as many points as possible, arranging the pieces, consisting of many different colored squares, on the playing field. So, if you combine 3 or more squares of the same color, they will disappear and bring you some points in the total score. The game develops an important feature of our brain – spatial perception and planning your actions.
CogniFit
CogniFit is a big collection of logical games and tasks. The tasks include logic and intelligence games, memory development, puzzles, learning games, and so on. After each task, you get the statistics of the solution of the same task from players from all over the world. A curious feature of the application is the fact that you download the games you want to play without clogging your phone memory with unnecessary megabytes.
Brain Out
Brain Out is another collection of interesting logic puzzles, standing out from the others with very nice visuals – the entire interface is depicted in a single drawn style. Each puzzle is a kind of set of pictures and text tasks to them, but do not forget that it is not always directly indicate the solution. It is hard to call the game hard, but to solve some levels you will have to use all the power of your logical thinking. It is this important function of our brain that this application seeks to develop.
Nonograms Katana
Nonograms Katana or Japanese crossword is a very entertaining puzzle that came to us from Japan. The gameplay is a kind of mixture of Sudoku and crossword puzzles, but instead of words, you will have to guess the drawings. The playing field contains a certain drawing area and an area with numbers along its edges. Each of them indicates how many cells on the line with this figure need to be painted over. So, step by step, you will fill in the main field, and as a result, you will get a hidden drawing. The complexity of the game increases with the increase in the “resolution” of the drawing. And if this is not enough for you, then the developer can offer you additional levels where you need not just to paint over the cells, but also to color them, also following the numbers.