[For Seniors] Brain Training Recommended for Dementia Prevention

Word Search: Constellations Edition

[Brain Training & Early Learning] Word Search Constellations Edition Part 1 (7 Questions in Total)

Among the letters scattered in a 6-by-6 grid, the names of constellations are hidden.

The names can appear in three directions—vertical, horizontal, and diagonal—and some must be read from right to left or bottom to top, so read carefully to find the correct combinations.

Each puzzle has a time limit, which can make you feel rushed, but it’s important to stay calm and focused.

Since the answers are constellation names, it may be somewhat difficult for those not familiar with them.

Studying constellations in advance could be the key to success.

Learning new knowledge also helps stimulate the brain, so it may be effective in preventing cognitive decline.

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Word Search: Fruits Edition

[Brain Training & Early Learning] Word Search: Fruits Edition – 7 Questions in Total

Amid the letters scattered across a 6-by-6 grid, there are hidden names of fruits.

The names can be arranged in three ways—vertically, horizontally, and diagonally—and some words must be read from right to left or bottom to top, so read carefully to find the correct combinations.

Each puzzle has a time limit, which can make you feel rushed, but it’s important to stay calm.

The difficulty is a bit high, but you can try as many times as you need until you find them.

In addition to concentration, this also develops thinking skills and word retrieval, and may help prevent cognitive decline.

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PET-bottle bingo for dementia rehabilitation

Plastic Bottle Cap Bingo

This is a game where you insert plastic bottle caps into a dedicated stand, aiming to create a row of caps of the same color.

The stand consists of a board with rods attached, and the caps are pre-punched with holes so they can be slid onto the rods.

Players take turns inserting caps of two colors, alternating by color.

While focusing on building your own row and preventing your opponent from completing theirs, the game feels like a three-dimensional version of Five in a Row.

Although it develops thinking and decision-making skills through strategy against your opponent, you can also strengthen finger dexterity by designing the cap holes and practicing sliding the caps onto the rods.

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Association card game

Perfect for lunch breaks! “Association Card Game”

It’s a game that tests your imagination and creativity by thinking of things associated with keywords written on cards.

You prepare three types of cards that represent “color,” “characteristic,” and “thing,” and place one card from each category on the table.

Then you think of something that fits all the conditions shown on the cards and share your answer.

Even a prompt like “a white, soft creature” could lead to multiple answers such as “rabbit” or “sheep,” so it could also be fun to compete on how many ideas you can come up with.

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Spot the difference

[Spot the Different Picture Brain Training] Dementia Prevention Video vol. 5: Train your concentration by finding the one picture that’s different from the others.

Let us introduce a “find the different picture” activity, said to help train spatial awareness and concentration.

From the arranged illustrations, locate the one image that is different.

Because you need the focus to spot the odd one out and the memory to compare candidates with the original, it also serves as a workout for your working memory.

People of any age can enjoy it, and the sense of accomplishment when you find it is exceptional.

You can also time how long it takes and compete, so it’s fun for individuals as well as small groups.

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A quiz where you guess what the initials stand for

[One-Character Quiz Brain Training] What do these initials stand for? Let's have fun with a whiteboard!

It might have been the most popular variety show of the 1990s.

Even if you don’t know the show itself, you’ve probably heard the phrase “Magical Banana.” Yes, this brain-training game was a big hit on “Magical Zunō Power!” It uses only hiragana to depict illustrations—a quiz where intuition and flashes of insight are key.

You express faces or animals using only initial letters, targeting that sweet spot of “almost obvious but not quite,” making it a truly addictive brain workout.

No drawing skills required, so even people who aren’t good at drawing are totally fine!

A Quiz on Difficult Kanji Related to Food

[Difficult Kanji] Food Edition! Introducing 20 tricky kanji reading questions that are hard to read when written in kanji

When you go into a Chinese restaurant, of course there’s a menu, but many items like ramen and gyoza are written in katakana, right? It’s the same with sushi toppings—things like aji or sanma aren’t written in kanji.

Even for foods we eat often and see all the time, when they’re suddenly written in kanji, we often can’t read them.

So how about everyone trying their hand at difficult-to-read kanji? Even graduates of famous universities or former teachers might struggle quite a bit! There are lots of quizzes uploaded on video sites, so be sure to make good use of them.