Brain Gym

Section A is twelve thinking rooms, each training one kind of thinking: patterns, space and shapes, logic and mysteries, numbers, memory, cause and effect, planning, illusions, codes, creative thinking, telling fact from fiction, and thinking like a computer.

Section B is seven bigger experiences: a room to escape, a case to crack, a bridge to build, a machine to outwit, and more. Under them, Compare them is a table for grown-ups of what each one teaches.

At the top, Who is playing? picks a band: Pre-K–K, Grades 1–3, Grades 4–6, Grades 7–9 or Grades 10–12. It is a starting point, never a lock: any child may pick any band. Below it are Today’s brain challenge, a new one each day, and This week’s mystery, a new case each week.

Inside a room, each challenge is marked Gentle, Steady or Stretch. After two results, the room may suggest a gentler step or a bigger one. It never moves your child by itself.

1. Open a room, read Your mission and How to play, and tap Start the mission.
2. Work the puzzle on the board. Another answer gets Not quite. Try again. and a pointer at the board.
3. Stuck? Hint 1 of 3 opens the first hint, then the next, one at a time.
4. Show me the answer draws the answer on the board itself. Start again clears it for another go.
5. A solve gets a warm word, such as Excellent! or Good job!, for the thinking. Then Next challenge.

Play together (family or class), or Together inside a room, sets the puzzles up for a group around one screen.

There are no points, badges, streaks, unlocks or timers, and nothing is lost for a hint, a mistake or taking a long time. Brain Gym remembers only which challenges your child has solved or seen, and the band they chose, on that device.