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[For Seniors] Popular Brain Training and Recreational Quizzes
When it comes to brain-training recreation… quizzes! They’re easy to enjoy, which makes them one of the most popular activities.
This time, we’ve gathered brain-training games that seniors can enjoy.
They’re also recommended for those who feel their memory or confidence in numerical calculations has waned a bit lately.
Thinking with your head activates the brain and helps prevent dementia.
If you’re planning quiz-based recreation for a day service or senior facility, be sure to give it a try.
[For Seniors] Popular Brain-Training & Recreation Quizzes (1–10)
Hiragana Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
This is a hiragana fill-in-the-blank quiz where part of a word is hidden and you guess what belongs there.
We’ll start with easy words hiding one character, and gradually increase the difficulty to hiding multiple characters within four-character idioms.
If it’s hard, feel free to pause the video and take your time to think.
Past and Present Quiz
“Konjaku Quiz” is a game where you guess the current names of things whose old names have changed.
For example, “emon-kake → hanger” or “chokki → vest.” Older adults have probably heard the newer terms, but they might instinctively answer with the familiar old ones.
It’s fun, so please give it a try!
Arunashi quiz
The “Aru-Nashi Quiz,” often seen on TV quiz shows, features two lists of words that look very similar—one group that “has it” and one that “doesn’t.” The trick is that the words in the “has” group conceal something or have something attached, following a specific rule as a wordplay puzzle.
Many of the problems are quite difficult, so a hint might be helpful!
Local specialty guessing quiz
This is a quiz where you present a prefecture’s local specialties and characteristics through illustrations or words, and the players guess which prefecture it is.
For example, if the answer is Kyoto, you can reveal several hints in order, such as Mount Daimonji, yatsuhashi sweets, and Kinkaku-ji Temple.
Even after the answer is revealed, the conversation tends to stay lively with comments like “I’ve been there” or “That dish is delicious.”
riddle
Riddles that children, with their flexible thinking, are good at, but that many adults can’t solve once their minds become rigid.
Let’s try tackling such riddles.
Many are like wordplay or puns that get more complicated the more you overthink them, so the trick may be to keep it straightforward and simple.
Make a word by inserting the same character
It’s a common fill-in-the-blank quiz where you complete words by inserting letters, but in this version the same letter goes into every blank.
For example, if you have “○んぶん○,” you’d put in “し” to make “しんぶんし” (newspaper).
If you’re stuck, feel free to pause the video and think it over!
Hiragana Rearrangement Quiz
This is a quiz where you rearrange randomly scrambled hiragana into words.
As the number of characters increases, it gets quite difficult, so if you’re stuck, take your time and think it through.
If you have hiragana cards, you can play with those, too.
It’s a perfect activity for brain training.