Games are not only played for having fun. Rather you should know that games can play a vital role in training your mind, but it depends on the game you play. Playing Pokémon Go will not help you train your mind, but some games can provide you with a thorough mental workout.

Mind Games for mental workout and training!

Many online mind/brain games can train and activate your mind, but you should surely know that we cannot discuss all of them in one post, and this is why we have discussed the most helpful ones for you guys.

Before we list out the games, we would like to mention an application home to dozens of brain training games.

●     Brain Games For Adults – Brain Training Games

Now, this is a very reliable brain games application that you can use to train your mind. This mind games app has more than fifty different brain games for adults and children. By playing the different games offered by this app, you can easily sharpen your mind. All you have to do is download this Brain Games For Adults from the Play Store and open it on your device. In the mind training app, you are going to find different categories of games. You can choose the category of brain exercise you want to go through and play the games indexed in the category. The different brain categories include:

• Brain focus
• Think fast
• Retention
• Brain Skills
• IQ level
• Logics
• Reflex

The category you choose would have the games that would train your mind for specific things. Playing these games can help you improve your cognitive abilities, the way you process things, your thinking ability, your memory, and also in testing your reflexes!

Other common mind games that you can play online!

You can find tons of brain games in the application that we have listed above. Still, suppose you need information about other helpful and interesting games. In that case, you should go through the list that we have compiled below:

• Sudoku

This game has been around us for the last thirty years. You must know that it plays an important role in training your brain and, most importantly, improving your short-term memory issues. Sudoku is a number placement game in which you have to choose the right combination. This game involves a lot of planning and concentration and can give a hardcore workout to your brain. You can play this game online, or you can also get it in application format. You would be surprised to know that you can also find Sudoku games in newspapers.

• Luminosity

It is also among the most well-known and established brain games that you can find on the application store. If you want to train your mind with games and mental fitness programs, luminosity is the best option. If you sign up with luminosity’s free account, you can play only three games in a day. If you subscribe to the paid plans, then you can easily enjoy more offerings. The best thing about connecting with luminosity is that it can help you keep track of your progress.

• Crosswords

Crosswords are also one of the oldest brain games that can help you train your mind. It doesn’t only train your mind and memory, but playing crosswords can make you more knowledgeable. There are many ways to do these puzzles. You can do them in newspapers, you can play online, or you can also get an application version for free. Many websites are hosting group crossword challenges, and if you want to play in a team, you can also connect with these sites. One of the common sites is AARP!

• Peak

Peak is another brain game application that you can get on both android and iOS devices. One should know that playing these games can surely help you in improving your memory and would also enhance your focus, your mental agility, problem-solving skills, cognitive functions and other important aspects. If you don’t want your brain to get old and weak, you should surely connect with peaks. We would like you to know that peak is free to use, but you have to purchase some brain games and exercises.

These are some of the best mind games and training platforms that can sharpen your mind!

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Every evening after school my mother and her siblings would run home, strip off their uniforms and rush to play. A different game was designated for very month and season. In the windy months they’d make kites; sticking china paper onto broomsticks with mashed rice that they’d steal from the kitchen. In the summer they’d collect their ‘annas’ (old unit of currency) to buy beautiful glass marbles, burrow shallow holes in the ground and played ‘kach’ in a shady patch behind the house. Some days they’d play ‘kuttiyumkolum’ on the beach, whacking sticks up into the air and whacking each other and in the damp months of monsoon, as the rains poured down outside and flooded the front yard, they would sit indoors with all the manjadikurus and cowrie shells they’d picked up on the beach and play ‘chogi’ and ‘pallankuzhi’.

During the summer vacations, while I would be lazing around all day watching TV and skulking around the house, my mother would tell me of all these stories from her childhood and of all the times she and her 12 siblings spent outdoors, soaking up the sun and playing all sorts of games. Celebrating all things nostalgic this month, FWD Life decided to revisit the games our parents indulged in during their childhood, games that today’s millennial probably hasn’t even heard of, one’s that they ought to put down their cellphones and ipads and go out and play.

Kuttiyumkolum

A circle is drawn in the grown and a small stick – the kutti – is placed within. The idea of the game is that a denner (first player) uses a koll – stick – to lift the kutti off the ground and strike it out of the circle into the distance surrounding it. If any of the children (players) manage to tap or hit the kutti, the player who took the first strike from the circle will be out. If the peg hits the ground, then the players next to it has the chance of hitting it towards the circle. If it falls into the circle, then the denner is out. If not, the denner has another chance with the stick and the kutti within the circle. It is believed that this game originated over 2500 years ago.

Pallankuzhi

Though it initially originated in Tamil Nadu, the Pallanguzhi game was widely popular in Kerala as well. It was designed centuries ago to help improve hand-eye coordination and to learn to count. Pallanguzhi requires a wooden board with 14 holes, two rows with 7 holes each. This makes 14 cups in the board. The game needs two players and cowrie shells, pebbles or manjadikuru seeds – used as tokens. The rules pertain a certain number of shells, and each player distributes the shells in each hole/cup. The rules of the game are mainly based on the capture of tokens by the winning player. The player, while putting in his/her tokens shouldn’t have an empty hole after the tokens are over. If he/she gets an empty hole, then the rival player captures the tokens.

Seven Tiles

Seven Stones is a game infused with the true culture and charm of Kerala. Seven stones or broken pieces of tile are one over the other and the idea behind the game is to knock down the entire stack. Each player has three chances to hit the stack, and if unsuccessful, has to hand over the ball to the next player.

Kach (Goli)

Kach is a game played with marbles. Shallow holes are created in the ground and players use their marbles and they have to hit a selected target using the marbles. The winner of the game gets all the marbles for himself.

Gutte

This traditional game is played by both children and adults. This simple game requires 5 pieces of small stones/cowrie shells. Players throw one of the stones/shells in the air and pick other stones/shalles from the ground before catching the one they threw in mid-air. The idea is not do it without dropping the one in the air.

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