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News and updates regarding PlayWithYourMind.com and related projects.

I like the idea of going home from a doctor’s visit with a prescription to get on your computer and play brain games… or perhaps even playing a few while you are there. Simple & cheap yet effective…
More doctor’s prescriptions may include brain games to improve mental acuity

So I got suspended from my previous webhost for excessive resource consumption – which I suppose is not the worst problem to have – and I had to upgrade to a dedicated IP. Unfortunately, there were a number of glitches in this process and it ended up taking a lot longer than it should More >

Beginning January 15, 2009 this site is undergoing a major upgrade, live.  As such many featrues will be unavailable for the coming weeks, but I will do as best as I can to fill in all the holes as soon as possible.  For now, feel free to play any of the below games on the More >

In the spirit of BrainBall, I present two new daily games, WordBall and The Typing Test. WordBall is a made of up 5 different word games and The Typing Test is comprised of 5 different typing challenges. Both follow the same format as BrainBall but session last just one week instead of a More >

Apparently there was an error with the words not loading in Keyboarding. This should be all set, but if anyone else encounters an error in one of the games–especially a critical one like that – please contact me and let me know.

The high score and IQ ranking system is all in place now and seems to be working properly. Just register for a free account and you can participate in the high score lists and game ranking system. I also just launched a personal stats page that provide an overview of your performance by More >

I have recently launched a new initiative called The Brain Directory. I figured since I spend many hours ever week scouring the web for brain-related websites, I might as well compile a directory of them to help keep me better organized and provide a valuable resources for other interested parties. It’s just beginning, More >

I’ve just started a new series about brain fitness tips to offer you some suggestions as to how you can improve your mind apart from playing brain games. I’ll try to add a new tip every few days or whenever I feel inspired.

I have gotten a number e-mails from people wondering what has become of BrainBall and the other daily games. The truth is, they take considerably more effort to maintain and became too much of a burden when I was only able to develop part of my time to this endeavor. To further complicate More >

If you have not done so already, make sure you check out my new section of puzzles and brainteasers. These are classic pencil-and-paper games you need to work through. I’ve just added 3 new puzzles today, so have a look…

well my progress on getting everything back online and working again has hit a snag with the discovery that my theme does not display properly in IE 7. for whatever reason it just won’t show the columns properly. I have spent like 6 hours trying to figure this out, even trying different themes More >

As promised, I have just uploaded the first batch of new memory exercises. Check them out and let me know what you think.
Photo Tracker – keep track of which of the images you have already clicked on as they shuffle around the board
Object Memory – remember the shape and color of various human silhouettes More >

I’ve been working the past couple days on rebuilding a number of the memory games I used in the earlier, very-limited release of my memory program. Some of the games from this previous project are already available somewhere on the site, either in the Memory Game section, the memory portion of the brain fitness More >

BrainBall, WordBall & The Typing Test are back online and beginning new seasons. Good Luck will begin again next week. Site should be displaying properly in all browsers, please let me know if you find otherwise.
I’ll be spending tomorrow making the final transitions to the new site and then I will get about More >

After a few months of neglecting BrainBall I have finally come through with a new season with 5 brand-new BrainBall tasks. Enjoy.