James May's Amazing Brain Trainer

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Description

This title is based on the idea that the more the brain is used the cleverer it becomes. It consists of a series of puzzles designed to test, and hopefully improve, memory, numeracy and literary skills as well as logic, spatial awareness among others.
Also on the DVD is an IQ test which the player can use to compare their score against the rest of the country. Everything is explained very clearly by James May a renowned television presenter and motoring correspondent.

Brain training consists of ten programmes each consisting of fifteen multiple choice questions from the following types;

  • Core Knowledge questions: These questions take the form "A is to B as Y is to ?"
  • Sudoku puzzles where the number of a nominated cell has to be selected
  • Dice puzzles
  • Domino puzzles which involve a sequence of some kind
  • Missing Card puzzles, a memory test where four cards are shown and then taken away and replaced and the player has to identify which card was not in the original set
  • Wordwheel where the player has to identify the word that can/cannot be made using the given letters
  • BrainDrain, this involves solving a maths equation
  • Maze puzzles: A maze is shown and the player has to select which, if any of four exits is connected to the centre
  • Brain Box: Here the player watches a short cartoon in which brains get into and out of a box, the objective being to keep track of the ins and outs and correctly state how many brains are in the box at the end

The game keeps a track of the player's score in these exercises and James announces the result at the end of each each test. The full IQ test uses the different types of questions each explained by James May and there are seventy of them in total.

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