Radica Games Brain Games 2 N5454 Instruction Manual
Dear Brain Gamers,
I am delighted that you are one of the millions of
people who want to keep the ir minds sharp and
have fun doing it. After t wo decades studying how
we can improve memory and prevent A lzheimer’s
disease, I have found there is a lot we can do.
Genetics accounts for only about a third of what
determines our health as we age – that means that
simple, everyday lifestyle choices have a major impact on our memory and brain fitness. My books,
The Memory Bible, The Memory Prescription, and
The Longevity Bible, detail my strategie s – physical
and mental exercise, stress re duction techniques,
the Healthy Brain Diet, and more – to boost your
brain power and live longer, better. However, you
are well on your way to boosting your brain power
by playing Brain Game s 2.
Brain Games 2 will teach you my basic memor y
technique – Look, Snap, Connect – and help you
perfect these strategies. Besides being fun to
play, Brain Games 2 will help your memory abilities
improve almost immediately. You will also “cro sstrain” your brain with left-brain (verbal memor y and
logical skills – e.g., writing letters) a nd right-brain
(visual memor y and mental skills – e.g., reading
maps) games. Brain Game s 2 lets you monitor
your progress, while setting and increasing a pace
that works for your memory ability as you train your
brain and gauge your improvement.
You can use Look, Snap, Connect for ever yday
memor y tasks (lists, errands, names and faces)
and build on this basic technique to become a
memor y champion. First master the basic skill:
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Look – learn to focus your attention on the new
information you wish to remember. Slow down,
take a deep breath, and ignore distractions.
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Snap – create a mental snapshot or visual
image in your mind’s eye of what you want to
remember. Make it perso nal and give it detail to
help fix it into your memor y.
•
Connect – link up your mental s napshots in
you mind’s eye. This a ssociation step helps put
the new memories into context and helps you
retrieve the m later when you need them.
To remember a list of errands, create a story using
Look, Sna p, Connect: You need to stop at the
store to get some aspirin and a hair b rush before
you meet your sister. In your mind’s eye, you see
your sister taking some aspirin and then brushing
her hair.
For learning and recalling names and faces, think
up a Name Snap and a Face Snap – then Connect
these mental pictures or Sna ps togethe r. Thinking
of a visual image or Snap for a name ca n be easy:
See a house for Mr. House, a gold coin for Ms.
Gold, or a ca rnival worker for Mrs. Carney. For
more complex names, combine visual words that
sound like the name – see Mr. Domachow eating
chicken chow mein under a dome. For a face
snap, look for a distinguishing fe ature and then
N5454
For 1 player / Ages 8 and up
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
P/N 823B6700 Rev.A
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N5454 Brain Games 2_Gold_Manual_1L-E, Mattel P/C N5454-0920, P/N 823B6700, Rev.A, Size: 225 x 315mm, Date: Jan. 09, 2008
connect it to the name snap. If Mrs. Washington has prominent lips, see her kissing George
Washington on the lips. At first it may se em a bit
wacky; however, you’ll not only have fun but you’ll
improve your everyday memory sk ills. Remembering names and faces is the most commo n
memor y complaint.
Our research group at UCLA has studied the effectiveness of Look, Snap, Connect, along with
other lifestyle strategies that improve memory
and brain health. We found that after only two
weeks, these techniques have a significant effect
on memor y performance scores and dramatically
increase brain ef ficiency. The more you play Brain
Games 2, the better you’ll get at it and the more
brain power you’ll have.
To find out more about the creation of Brain
Games, visit ww w.drgarysmall .com and
www.brainstormingi nc.com.
Have fun,
Dr. Gary Small
ReAdy TO CROSS-TRAIN yOUR BRAIN !
Brain Games are mind stimulating activities
for your brain. It’s time to challenge yourself!
Whether you choose to enter the Training session
or jump right into the Testing mode, Brain G ames
2 will be sure to challenge your mind in several
new and dif ferent ways.
ON – Press the ON button to powe r on the game.
Use the stylus to tap the SCROLL arrows at the
top and bottom of the touchscreen to toggle
through the different game modes. Once your
mode is highlighted, tap it using the stylu s to
select.
NEW – Pres s this on the touchscre en to bring up
End Round or New Game.
END ROUND – This allows you to end the
current game and ca lculates the score up to
that point. This may be most useful in the
Word Hunt game when you can not think of
any more words, but there is still time remaining. Or Rec all when you have already memorized words and there is still time remaining.
NEW GAME – This allows you to cancel the
current game and return to the Main Menu. If
selected during Testing mode, it will c ancel
your score for that ses sion.
ENTER – Press this to confirm your selection.
MENU – This will bring you back to the Menu
when you are selecting your options. If you have
already started a game, you will need to Select
NEW to quit and return to the Main Menu.
TIPS – Pres s this to see quick suggestions on
things you can do everyday to help improve your
memor y and gene ral wellbeing.
TIMER – This is a countdown timer that is used in
some of the exercises.
MAIN MeNU
TESTIN G – Select TESTING from the Main Menu
to start your daily exercise program. Choose the
skill level you wish to play at, and that’s it ! Brain
Games will now run you through the 5 different
exercises (described below) of your routine. This
is the mode that you will be tested in and that
will record your score. You can check thi s in the
SCORE mode (see below). Remembe r to use the
Look, Sna p, Connect technique!
TRAIN ING – This is where you can train or
practice the different brain games without af fecting your score. Select TRAINING from the Main
Menu. Tap the SCROLL arrows to toggle through
the five different exercises ( Sequence, Twist,
Focus, Word Hunt, and Recall) and tap the one
you wish to select. Next, choose the skill level you
wish to play at. You are now ready to sta rt your
training session.
Word Hun t - In this brain game your objective it to use the letters the game gives you
to make words. You will be s hown a word
on screen and the total number of words
that can be fo rmed out of that word. Se lect
letters from the core word with the stylus to
spell new words and then select Enter. To
deselect a letter, select that letter from your
word and it will return to the origina l word.
After completing the exercise, the game will
display how many you got cor rect.
Sequence – In this brain game your objective
is to select the random number s in the grid in
the proper sequence or orde r (lowest to highest). If you selec t a number out of seque nce
an X will appear, and you will continue onto
the next grid. If the sequence is correct, a
musical prompt will sound. There will be
several grids in each game. After completing
the exercise, the game will display how many
you got correct.
Twist – In this brain game the objective is to
memorize the relationship of 2 images and
then apply that relationship to a 3rd image
in order to select the correct answer. You
will be shown a p uzzle on the left side of
the touchscreen. You will also be shown the
same puzzle rotated or flipped ( horizo ntally
or vertically) on the right side of the touchscreen. You will have 5 seconds to look at the
puzzle on the left and see how it ha s been
rotated or flipped in the puzzle on the right.
After 5 seconds, you will be shown a new
image and 4 possible answers. You have to
recall the relationship of the puzzles from the
opening screen and apply that relationship to
the puzzle at the top. You have 15 seconds
to solve the puz zle. Afte r completing the
exercise, the game will display how ma ny you
got corre ct.
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Focus – In this brain game you are shown an
image to memorize.
You are then told the relationship of the
original image and the corre ct answer. You
then need to select the correct image from 4
very similar images that are displayed on the
touchscreen. The higher the skill level, the
less time you have to memorize the original
image. Af ter completing the exercise, the
game will di splay how many you got correct.
Recall – In this brain game you are given a
list of words to memorize within a period of
time. Use the Scroll arrows at the top and
bottom of the touchscreen to show mo re
words. Af ter a shor t time you will be given an
opportunity to recall as many of those words
as possible and group them into “Chunks”.
At the top of the screen it will give you a category and you will se lect the words that fall
into those categorie s. You will then be taken
to the next brain game to return later. After
you have completed the other brain ga mes,
you will return and be shown those words
and several others. Your objective is to pick
as many of those words that you groupe d into
chunks, and not the ones that weren’t on the
list. After completing the exercise, the game
will display how many you got correct.
SCORE – Choose SCORE from the Main Menu.
The score option keeps a tally of ever y TESTING
session played. This is a great way to measure
your progress over time. After each TESTING
session is played, an average (or percentage)
is measured based on all 5 brain games that
were played. T hese are recorde d in the SCORE
section. A bar char t is shown that repre sents
how well you brain has flexed its muscle. The
more you practice the exercises in TRAINING
the stronger your brain’s muscle will be for your
TESTING.
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