[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.
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[For Seniors] Popular Brain Training and Recreation Quizzes (21–30)
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!
Who am I? Celebrity edition

A “Who am I?” quiz where you look at photos of celebrities and guess their names.
For older adults who enjoy variety shows and TV dramas as a hobby, this might be a bit too easy.
Still, it’s common to know the face but not have the name come to mind right away—“I saw them on that show,” “They were the lead in that drama,” you can almost hear people say.
Here, the difficulty gradually increases from easy to more challenging, so anyone can join in casually.
Spinning your mental gears with “Who was that again?” provides a pleasant brain stimulus for older adults.
Be sure to include it in recreational activities and enjoy working on dementia prevention.
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.
Animal True/False Quiz

This is a quiz that gathers niche questions about animals.
It’s a bit difficult, so each question is a true-or-false (O/X) choice.
Even if you get one wrong, you’ll learn a lot—it’s a quiz that builds knowledge.
It’s packed with trivia you’ll want to share with others.
Difficult Kanji Quiz

Setting aside those who are especially good with kanji, there are difficult characters that most people can’t read smoothly.
Let’s enjoy those tricky kanji as a quiz.
Various difficult kanji will appear, so try to answer within the time limit.
There are plenty of other videos with tough-kanji questions too, so it’s nice to have something you can do in a short spare moment.
Kanji Quiz

This is a kanji quiz where the components of characters are turned into riddles, and players guess which kanji it is.
For example: “What kind of stone is under a mountain?” If you write the character for “stone” under the character for “mountain,” you get “岩” (rock).
In this way, participants guess the kanji and then everyone says it out loud together as part of the quiz.
Change Calculation Quiz

This is a “change calculation quiz” where you figure out how much money remains in your wallet after shopping.
You start with a fixed amount of money, and you’re given problems about what items to buy and how much they cost.
Add up the total cost of the items you bought, then subtract that total from the amount you have to get the answer.


