Are there any good memory or skills improvements games

[Flaxbee]

out there? "Brain games"? Any sites that offer these kinds of games?

Trying to do some research and I figure the DU gaming group is full of experts! Thanks in advance for any info....

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1. Just off the top of my head

http://www.braingle.com -- mostly user-submitted puzzles, but well organized into categories

And a couple of Boggle-type games: http://www.wordtwist.org/ and http://www.wordsplay.net/

[Ian David]

2. Yes, but I forget. n/t

[Brucie Kibbutz]

3. Portal

http://store.steampowered.com/app/922/

[Sherman A1]

4. SET

by Set Games. It's a great little card game that plays fast.

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5. Another site that offers quizzes that might meet your criteria:

http://www.sporcle.com

Dozens of list-based games, so more long-term memory. I think they could be used as short-term memory tools as well if you were to play them more than once, prompting recall to the earlier games.