Trying to keep brain cells alive (friends, years, single, best)
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About the only online game I've played for some time is Freecell Solitaire. Usually a game or two everyday. I should look into some other games as well. For a while I was piecing together some of the online puzzles, but I got out of the habit.
I play Word Chums, it is Scrabble-like, online with friends. We play single games, two people on a team against another team, or as a group of four. I’ve played random people also and I have kept playing games with one, we are well matched. There is usually six games going.
When no one is online, I play the Chumbots (the computer) I worked up to being able to occasionally beat the toughest one. I usually get beat nine times out of ten, but winning the one keeps me coming back for more. I won three games in a row against the bot recently, my best ever. I’ve been playing for several years.
Here's a favorite of mine: the NATO phonetic alphabet. When I'm in the gym or stuck anyplace with time on my hands, I read signs on the wall and (silently) call them out in my head. As quickly as possible. It is oddly energizing as well as brain sharpening.
Years ago, I took a long drive with a friend who was getting his pilot's license. He had to learn it and was practicing on license plates of passing cars. By the time we got to our destination, I'd learned about half of them. I put a list of them on the refrigerator door and learned the rest.
I play scrabble on FB, Wizard's Spell, Lingo and Suds on GSN (all word games). On my phone I play Blossom Blast Saga, FreeCell, Clockmaker and In Bloom (a word game)
I was a gamer before it was a thing. I loved playing board games, pinball, Pacman and other arcade games. I stayed away from video games altogether only because I knew if I ever got hooked I would be sucked in forever.
Interestingly, my nephew is a video game concept artist for ZeniMax Online Studios, and before that WB Games/Turbine in Boston. He's worked on The Lord of the Rings Online, Infinite Crisis, and Arkham Underworld, and has created key art illustrations for Elder Scrolls Online. Ironically, DOESN'T play video games!
There are other threads on this very topic. Summary is: there is no evidence that exercising the mind has an effect on loss of cognition due to aging.
But that being said, I do crossword puzzles and Sudoku, but mostly because I enjoy it.
My neurologist at Duke University believes the opposite.
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