5 Best iPhone Apps for Braniacs
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Despite the name, smart phones usually get a pretty bad rap for draining our attention and essentially making us dumber. Anyone who has ever played Angry Birds knows how addictive and mind numbing some smart phone apps can be. But, what many don’t know is that there are apps out there that can exercise your mind in ways you wouldn’t think possible. Here are some of the best iPhone game apps that’ll keep your brain on its toes.
Words with Friends, modeled after the classic game Scrabble, is an excellent way to spend your time when you have nothing else to do. You’ll learn new words that you never thought existed, and you’ll sharpen your math skills as you try to place words strategically to maximize the number of points you receive. The best part about this game? You get to play against your friends!
From the same company that brought us Words with Friends, Hanging with Friends is a variant of that wonderful childhood game, Hangman. Just as in Words with Friends, Hanging with Friends enables you to sharpen your vocabulary and strategic skills. The key to being a master at this game is not coming up with the most advanced word necessarily, but coming up with a word that will be difficult for your opponent to guess.
For all you Wikipedia fanatics out there, this is an excellent way to challenge your knowledge in different areas. Here’s how it works—you are first directed to a random Wikipedia entry (you can change the settings so that the entry given falls into a certain category, like history). You are then given a final destination entry that seems completely unrelated to your initial entry. Using different hyperlinks, you are challenged to arrive at the destination entry after a certain number of links or “strokes.” Wiki Golf is an entertaining way that demonstrates how all the world’s knowledge, is, in one or another, connected.
As we get older, our memory may start to fade. That is, unless, you actively exercise your ability to remember things. Spot the Difference helps you do just that. The game pulls up two very similar images. Your task is to spot five differences between the two images before your time is up. You’ll receive points for correct guesses, but take a wrong guess and you’ll lose points. I’ve found that playing this game on a regular basis sharpens your awareness of everything around you.
Perhaps you remember playing this game on a board when you were younger. The Trivial Pursuit iPhone app brings back all those memories while testing your knowledge in different subject areas, like the arts, sports and leisure, science and nature, and more. Perfect for trivia whizzes who are looking to expand their knowledge or practice their skills while preparing for live trivia competitions.
These aren’t the only iPhone apps out there that are perfect for brainiacs, but they are a good start. But be forewarned—every single one of these apps is extremely addictive! But on the bright side, it’s an addiction that will give your brain a workout!
This is a guest post from Jacelyn Thomas. Jacelyn writes about identity theft prevention for IdentityTheft.net. She can be reached at: jacelyn.thomas @ gmail.com.
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I am just wondering if this app is free to download cause I would like to try this on my I-phone. it looks so much fun, and I am sure that it will not bore me.
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