Some interesting data today, including ANOTHER GAME. I KNOW, GUYS.

Picross DS

It occurred to me that I should be applying the negative number rule to Picross, since it uses times to measure your score. The chart has thusly been updated, and will look even weirder than I predicted it would yesterday.

Either I'm very tired today, or I was super alert yesterday. I did a good job with the Time Attack, coming in at 34.73 seconds but I ruined everything else. No X Marks took me 74.45 seconds, while the Error Search took 55.12 seconds. The Memory time is probably a more accurate representation today (35.95 seconds), since yesterday's was REALLY EASY. Here's a REALLY EASY CHART.

Big Brain Academy

The Identify category presented me with a game called "Matchmaker," wherein I had to find matches between sets of items. It's sort of easy, until they start using numbers instead of easily definable shapes.

For my Analyze score, I played a game of "Animal Lines." The game displays a grid of animals, and a pattern of them on the top screen. The object is to draw a line through the grid of animals that accurately passes through the animals on the top screen in their correct order.

The Think-related game was called "Bone Yard." A little cartoon dog thing appears in a grid, and the top screen displays arrows noting the path that the dog is going to take upon the grid. The point is to place a bone in the place where he will end up, based on the arrows. There are also large green blocks that can move, so you have to take those into consideration as well. DARN YOU GREEN BLOCKS.

Memorize and Compute were the same. HAH!

My brain weight is now 1139g! Woo! Improvement! I also now have a C+ rating, and the mind of Michelangelo!

Unfortunately, "Michelangelo" is not a number, and is therefore not featured in the following chart:

Planet Puzzle League

It's sort of hard to write a lot about the Planet Puzzle League scores. It's so boring to say, sorry. All I did was get 3170 points in Score Attack, 2419 points in Lift Attack, and 0 points in Garbage Attack.

Wait--WHAT?!

Yes, 0 points. I let the stack get too high. SORRY EVERYONE.

At least the chart should look cool now.

Brain Age

First test...Stroop Test. I finally ended up running into the "Blue" problem. That'll teach me to open my big mouth! My big typey internet mouth!!

Word Memory, which was forged from hate and lava and evil dinosaurs, let me remember only 18 of its 30 random words. Thanks, Word Memory.

My third test was Calculations x20, which I genuinely like to do.

Sadly, I ended up with a brain age of 43.

In Brain Age 2, I got my second-highest time in Rock, Paper, Scissors! TAKE THAT, STROOP TEST.

The second test was called Symbol Match. The game assigns random symbols to numbers, then shows you a number, and then you have to draw the symbol. I don't often draw ampersands, so, naturally, they throw in 9000 ampersands. Thanks guys.

I also did Math Recall again. It's like Total Recall, except less about Mars and more about Math.

My brain got older today, with a brain age of 35. BRAIN, WE HARDLY KNEW YE.

I'm introducing a new thing to the Brain Age chart, the "Average Age" (or "Aver-Age" as I am so wittily calling it) of my brain. Logically, since both games are a true measurement of the age of my brain, because of SCIENCE, I can get an even more, super-accurate estimate of my brain's decline into senility via this new item.

(FYI: Yesterday, the Aver-Age was 29.5, while today it is 39.)

THE NEW FANCY CHART PLEASE!

So, you may ask, "how does this stuff actually affect you in real life?" To which I will respond, "I don't know, but I can do an inane test to pretend to find out!" And, thus, another game is added to the fray, a game that I am impossibly terrible at...

Pac-Man

Yes, that's right. I'm bad at Pac-Man.

But, super Brain Training should have a positive effect on my Pac-Man scores, right? Isn't this how science works?!

I don't know.

But I have gotten better since yesterday! My score yesterday was 12520 points, and today it is 13280 points. ASTOUNDING!

Wild CHART appeared!

Some hits and misses today. My brain is getting older and heavier, and I'm getting worse at drawing stuff in boxes. At least I know how to run around and eat pills.

Like Pac-Man.

It was a Pac-Man joke.

Labels: Nintendo DS, The Daily Grind