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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero                    Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| Man, I can't believe I forgot to make this thread. It's an entertaining little distraction. I've made a habit of playing every game once a day. Anyone else have it? | |||
NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE   Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| I do. I'm not too good at the activities, but I've been enjoying the Sudoku. I've never really played it much before getting Brain Age. | |||
Karadur Red Paratroopa Since: 11-22-05 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Last post: 6552 days Last view: 6552 days |
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Bought it a week and a couple days ago, and I've been playing it on and off (although at least once each day) since. However, most of the time I turn my DS on, is during the wee hours of the morning, so I always get told "Don't stay up too late now"  I'm trying to get into the habit of playing it during the day though, as I'm sure it's not doing my scores any good to play it right before heading to bed 
My favorite activity would have to be either Calculations x20 or Calculations x100. Syllable count is pretty easy as well, but that's nothing definite yet, as I still have three more to unlock  Head Count and Low to High have been the most frustrating so far (although for Head Count, only when the people are walking faster than they normally do), but once again, that could very well change.
The drawing games are fun as well (where the doctor's head pops up and says something about how he's going to tell you to draw three things, and then they'll be compared to his results), although most of the time, mine come out either looking like a bunch of random lines, or really poorly drawn. It seems the main point of it is to see whether you were concentrating mainly on what you were expected to (so for example, if you were asked to draw a picture of the Statue of Liberty, it'd be the torch in the statue's hand), so there's nothing wrong there. The only other thing I've had come up like that was a question asking me what I'd eaten that day. I couldn't very well fit "Beef & Potato burrito, cheese quesadilla, nachos & cheese" into the small box, so I simply wrote "Taco Bell", as that's where I'd eaten it. Several days after that, I got asked "What did you have for dinner on x/xx?" I couldn't remember, so I simply wrote "food" You can't really say that's the wrong answer.
My current (as in last time I ran the test) brain age is 45, and the best I ever managed to get was 38, I believe. Anyways, enough about my experiences with the game. How about the rest of you? Edit: As for Sudoku, haven't really messed with it a whole lot yet. I've never played that sort of game before, so all the past times I tried it, I used up my 5 mistakes before I even got one square filled in  (edited by Karadur on 04-28-06 05:21 PM) |
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fabio Ameboid  Since: 11-17-05 From: Texas Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| I just played downloaded it from my friend awhile ago. I only had time to do 30 problems of addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
I'll be able to play it again tommorow since I'm inviting my friends over to my house tomorrow. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| Oh, mans. I forgot to say.
I'm pretty good at most of them, so I've gotten a few 20s. But, I'm a bit slow at calculations, and whenever I get that it's increased by 5-8... And I am horrible at word memory that always increases my brain age in to the 50s. |
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Karadur Red Paratroopa Since: 11-22-05 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Last post: 6552 days Last view: 6552 days |
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| Just out of curiosity, how many stamps do you have, Alastor? I unlocked Triangle Math earlier this morning, so I think that puts my count at 10 or higher That game in itself was quite confusing at first. The first time I tried it, I thought you had to add / subtract / whatever other operation the game may give you all the numbers on the top row, but that left me with nothing to do for the circles in the second row
I've got it figured out now, but it's going to be interesting to see if there's a hard mode for it, where multiplication and division get added in. It may simply even have more numbers. Who knows? As for the actual Brain Age tests, Word Memory is probably the most frustrating one for me as well. Even more so because the game sees my "a" as an "o" for whatever odd reason. Most of the time I try the whole Brain Age test thing, I end up choosing Calculations x30 (or whatever the number is), the Stroop Test (where you have to say the color of the words as opposed to the words themselves), and the Speed Counting thing where you're required to count from 1 to 120 as fast as possible, making sure you say each number clearly. A couple days ago now, I told my brother to try the Brain Age test to see what sort of result he could get, so he did. I don't know the exact score he was given at the end, but he said something about "It tells me my brain is in it's 80's!"
Anyhow, it's about time I was getting ready for work (yay for having a 7 to 3 in the morning shift ), so I'll leave it at that. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| I've played it every day and got it on monday. I have 7 stamps.
By the by, I used to have that trouble on word memory, but I worked out the way it recognizes A. The main problem I have is that, as I claw-handed lefty, my tendency is to draw letters and numbers from the bottom up, not the top down. On calculations and word memory, it slows me down to go against my nature. But I digress; draw it like... Well, start from the upper right, go down and then halfway down slowly make a clockwise 270 degree rotation to halfway left/right from the top, drawing right to meet the original point... Then go straight down and make a little hook to the right at the bottom. Edit: Also, Reading Aloud seriously pisses me off. I can't freaking do it! I always finish too quickly for him to measure 
I do the same thing with the speed counting thing, but there it doesn't penalize you for finishing too quickly... It merely won't accept the answer until 15 seconds have gone by. Once I finish, I typically tap the button repeatedly for the 3 or so seconds until it starts registering (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 04-30-06 07:20 PM) (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 04-30-06 07:27 PM) |
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Kirk Newcomer Since: 05-03-06 Last post: 6593 days Last view: 6593 days |
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| What is it? I've never heard of the game. | |||
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Karadur Red Paratroopa Since: 11-22-05 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Last post: 6552 days Last view: 6552 days |
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Nintendo's page on the game sums everything about it up better than I could, so read that, and you should have a pretty good idea of what it is 
Anyways, I unlocked Time Lapse a couple nights ago (I believe you need 15 stamps), and I don't like it The main idea of it is to look at two pictures of a clock, and give the difference in hours and minutes between them (which is what the name may lead you to think). As for the proper way to draw "a", that makes sense. It seems my problem was starting from the upper left as opposed to right Oh well. Next time I give the Brain Age test a go, I'll try that method and hopefully get a better score than before
Calculations x100 on Hard mode is definitely more tricky as well. It's exactly the same as the normal mode, except division is added into the mix. I can only hope there isn't a "Very Hard" difficulty that'll get unlocked eventually. When it comes to Reading Aloud, how fast are you reading? I find it difficult to get above 8 syllables a second, and the only way I achieved that score was by accidentally tapping "End" right after flipping to the last page. The only thing I could think of to help with your problem is to give yourself an extra two seconds (or a similar amount) before tapping "Next" at the end of each page. If that doesn't work, just keep increasing the amount of time until you no longer get the message that you're going too fast |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| I typically average 12 syllables per second when I slow down enough so that it can read me. I've gotten as low as 9 and as high as 15, though.
And really, though that lowercase way works, the easiest way to draw an A is to just draw a capital A, since it isn't case sensetive |
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Peardian N-Z KvSG #193 is up!  Since: 11-17-05 From: Pearl Island Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6307 days |
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My brother has this game. Sometimes I watch him play just to see what he has to do. One time, he had to draw a Koala, followed by a Kangaroo. Then he had to draw Australia. 
Maybe I'll start a file on there some day... |
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Karadur Red Paratroopa Since: 11-22-05 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Last post: 6552 days Last view: 6552 days |
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| If I remember correctly, the main point behind those drawing were (for the Koala) to see if you focused on the big ears, for the kangaroo, the pouch on it's stomach, and for Austraila, it's twin peaks. For the latter, I focused more on drawing the little island to the lower-right of it (it's name escapes me at present) It doesn't seem to have any affect on the game itself, so you could very well make the screen completely black, and not have to worry about it changing your stats in any way.
So far, I've also been asked to draw the Statue of Liberty, the Mona Lisa, Queen Elizabeth, King Henry, and several others  There's also questions that come up from time to time instead of having to draw, asking things like "What did you have for dinner on x/xx?" or, "What was the best thing you've heard on the news since x/xx?". The other day when I let my brother play it, apparently he got asked one of the questions, so several days after that, when I turned my DS on, I got asked to write down the answer to the question, and found it awfully strange, seeing as it was one I'd never been asked before After seeing the answer displayed though, it was painfully obvious my brother had written it (his handwriting is very... unique).
Anyways, I see no real point to those questions / drawing "challenges", but they're still fun diversions as opposed to starting the game up and just being shown the menu after choosing your profile name |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| I believe it's to test your memory |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| ... It's amazing. Hard Calculations x100 is actually many times easier for me than Normal Calculations x100. | |||
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D 2007 D Since: 02-19-06 Last post: 6354 days Last view: 6354 days |
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| I finally got this.
I got 2 stamps so far (whoopee), brain age of 28, but I never do any of the spoken tests (ever, for any reason). I just... don't like the idea of talking into an inanimate object. My mom would probably call me crazy or something |
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