{"id":508,"date":"2007-11-27T23:24:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/27\/wii-big-brain-academy\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T23:24:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T04:24:54","slug":"wii-big-brain-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/27\/wii-big-brain-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Big Brain Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"102\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1056\/564021595_db66cab441_m.jpg\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 102px; height: 240px\" \/>I have been a fan of the Brain Age and Big Brain Academy games on the Nintendo DS.\u00a0 So I wasn&#8217;t surprised when someone in my family gave us the Wii version of Big Brain as a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a more mentally\u00a0stimulating game than the average first-person shooter, you will probably like Big Brain.<\/p>\n<p>The whole idea behind these games is to exercise your brain by showing you simple puzzles and measuring how long it takes you to solve them.\u00a0 The answers are things even an elementary student knows, so the challenge is the go through them as quickly as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example.\u00a0 You are given four numbers: 4, 1, 2, 3<\/p>\n<p>Eliminate one or more of the numbers so the sum equals six.\u00a0 There are a couple of ways to do it, but the quickest response gets the most points.<\/p>\n<p>In between family matches of tennis, we are now adding some brain exercises.\u00a0 Anyone for an online challenge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a fan of the Brain Age and Big Brain Academy games on the Nintendo DS.\u00a0 So I wasn&#8217;t surprised when someone in my family gave us the Wii version of Big Brain as a Christmas gift. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/27\/wii-big-brain-academy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,85],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure","tag-games","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}