Word Play
Crossword Puzzles Interactive crossword puzzles. A daily puzzle, an archive of all past daily puzzles, and a selection of other puzzles.
Brain Puzzles Mind-stretching riddles and lateral-thinking challenges.
Vocabulary Workout Exercises which push you to respond quickly and develop your vocabulary at the same time.
Analogies Workout Exercises presenting "A is to B as C is ?" type analogies to solve in multiple choice format.
Word Memory Workout Build your memory by attempting to remember sequences of words.
Number Play
Arithmetic Workout Sequences of basic arithmetic computations -- Performing them as quickly as you can will light up your brain.
Sum to Fifteen Hard thinking: Create a 4x4 square of numbers all summing to 15 (known as a magic square).
Sudoku Interactive versions of the popular Sudoku puzzles at different levels of difficulty.
Number Memory Workout Another way to build your memory, this one by attempting to remember sequences of numbers.
Visual Play
Picture Scramble Puzzle Pictures are sliced into small squares and scrambled -- you reassemble them; many pictures a three levels of difficulty.
Stroop Task A speed exercise based on a class psychological phenomena concerning the interaction of verbal and visual perception.
Picture Memory Workout A third way of building your memory, this one visual: Remember the order of sequences of pictures.
Games
Board Games
Peg Solitaire
Start with 32 pegs arranged in a cross, with one empty hole in the center; jump pegs until
no more jumps are possible, try to leave as few as you can.
15 Puzzle 15 numbered squares are scrambled in a 4x4 grid, with one empty square. You
must slid the squares using the empty to unscramble the numbers.
Card Games
Klondike The classic solitaire card game, also known as Patience. The task is to play
it as fast as possible while maximizing your score.
Reading
This section of Strong Brain is devoted to exercising your mind by reading and discussing a
range of short stories and essays, from a steadily growing list of authors including
Bierce, Chekhov, Darwin, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Fitzgerald, Gogol, Hemingway, O.Henry, Joyce, Poe, Twain, and Wells.
Information
A large collection of links and other information covering the following categories:
Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Associations, Books and Magazines, Crossword Puzzles, Diet, Exercise, Game Sites, Government Agencies, Health, Mental Agility, Neurology and Psychology, Puzzle Sites, Stories and Reading.