5 brain-boosting phone games to help you distract yourself

5 brain-boosting phone games to help you distract yourself

Pump up your thinking instead of mindlessly updating your social media feed.

Sometimes you want to distract yourself from work and mindlessly stick to your phone during a break. But there is an alternative. We made a selection of games that will help develop thinking skills and make the mind more flexible.

The English version will help you develop your language skills.

Da Vinci’s riddles: a quiz game

The app develops your wits. In the “Classic” mode, the player has to solve riddles in 20 categories: history, medicine, literature and others. And the “Quiz” mode tests erudition and wit: in 10 seconds you need to find errors in spelling, solve a math example or guess a folklore riddle.

The game teaches you to be attentive and clever.

Mnemocon

The application presents techniques for generating images from words and creating neural connections. In the game you will perform exercises and tasks, learning the methods of mnemotechnics. This will help you memorize phone numbers, texts and, for example, dates.

TV show, based on which the online game is created, over the years has gathered many fans. In the application you will find yourself in the role of a connoisseur, checking erudition, or in the role of the author, composing questions for the audience. And if you want to play for the captain of the team, you will choose the right answer from the proposed.

Decide on the topic in which you want to test your knowledge – and go ahead. The game develops attention, creativity and curiosity.

Wikium

In this browser game you need to solve puzzles, solve examples and memorize pictures. The developers claim that after 2-3 weeks of daily practice, memory improves by 19%.