[For Seniors] Brain Training Recommended for Dementia Prevention

Stroke Count Guessing Quiz

Elderly Brain Training × Care Recreation: Stroke Count Quiz 26 – Dementia Prevention and Care Prevention Video for Seniors [Fukukuru]

Are you writing characters with the correct stroke order? This is a game where you guess which stroke number the red-highlighted part in the illustration should be written as.

It’s a good way to retrain your brain by reviewing the stroke order and stroke count of kanji you write without thinking.

That said, it seems some kanji have had their standard stroke orders changed in recent years, so there are parts to watch out for.

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

Report a problem

Brain-training finger play

[Test Your Frontal Lobe] Brain Training for the Frontal Lobe That Seems Easy but Is Difficult

Here’s a no-prep recreation activity: a finger-play brain exercise.

It’s simple to do! First, hold your hands up with your palms facing you and make fists.

Open only the thumb on your right hand and only the pinky on your left hand.

Next, switch: open the pinky on your right hand and the thumb on your left hand.

Keep repeating this.

It sounds easy, but it’s surprisingly hard.

Try doing it to a rhythm—one, two, one, two—and you might find yourself laughing at how tricky it is.

But don’t worry.

The goal isn’t to do it perfectly; performing two different movements at the same time stimulates your brain, so just trying it provides a brain-training effect.

With practice, you’ll get the hang of it and feel a sense of achievement.

Give it a try!

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

kojifumi

Report a problem

Calculation Quiz

[Verification] The theory that a quiz king who’s strong with numbers can guess what a nonsensical formula represents

We would like to introduce a “calculation quiz” that cultivates logical thinking, memory, and arithmetic skills.

There are four problems in total; the answers to three are known.

The final problem provides a hint, and it’s a quiz where you deduce the answer by working through the calculations leading up to it.

Starting from the answer and working backward, you calculate which numbers fit into the parts marked with symbols such as circles and squares, and you need to remember the numbers used along the way.

Because it requires performing multiple activities simultaneously, it provides stimulating content for the brain.

There is also a time limit, so it’s important to proceed calmly without rushing.

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

kojifumi

Report a problem

Prefecture Quiz

Prefecture Quiz

Many people may no longer clearly remember the names and locations of Japan’s prefectures that they learned in elementary school.

This game is a brain-training exercise where you identify a prefecture’s name from three clues.

On the flip side, the hints help you gain new knowledge, making it quite interesting.

Learning about other prefectures might even nurture a sense of hometown pride.

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

Report a problem

Baseball card game

[Official] Understand in 9 minutes! Professional Baseball Card Game Dream Order How to Play Video

This is a card game where, just like real baseball, players alternate between offense and defense to try to score points.

For defense, you prepare ball cards that show different pitch types, and for offense, you prepare bat cards that show pitch types.

At a signal, both players reveal their cards while trying to predict the opponent’s choice.

If the pitch type on the cards matches, the offensive player scores points, so the key is the mind game of anticipating your opponent’s card.

It’s a game that gives your brain a workout through prediction while also naturally sparking conversations about baseball.

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

kappamaki

Report a problem

A game where you make long words using the Japanese syllabary (gojūon)

[Fun Recreation] Brain Training with Japanese Syllabary Cards! Directly from Kenichi Yamaguchi!

Simple yet fun! Here’s a game where you make words using the Japanese syllabary (gojūon).

The rules are easy: Prepare cards with hiragana for all the gojūon and lay them out in order.

Participants create words using the gojūon; they get to keep the cards for the characters used in their word.

Repeat this, and when no more words can be made with the remaining characters, the game ends.

The player with the most cards at the end wins.

It’s perfect brain training because you have to come up with words using limited letters! You can also play in teams and brainstorm words together for extra excitement.

Give it a try!

Let’s find words within a word.

Recreation for seniors: super easy and fun brain training even during the COVID-19 pandemic! Word-search game

I’d like to introduce a game where everyone can play at the same time and get excited: a “find words inside a word” game.

In this game, you rearrange or extract letters from a given target word and see how many other words you can make.

For example, if the target is “とうもろこし” (corn), you can make words like “うし” (cow) or “しも” (frost).

Decide on a target word and a time limit, and you can compete to see who can find the most words.

You can also share with each other, saying, “Here are the words I found.”

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

yamamoto

Report a problem