[For Seniors] Brain-training quizzes for January: Let’s have fun with New Year and winter trivia
January, the month that welcomes a brand-new year, is the perfect time to reset and give your brain a good workout.
In this article, we’ve prepared plenty of January-only quizzes: fun trivia about the New Year, spot-the-difference puzzles themed around winter scenery, and even tricky winter-related kanji.
As you tackle these seasonally rich challenges, you may find nostalgic memories resurfacing and catch yourself saying “I see!” at newfound insights—there’s a delightful time waiting for you.
Enjoy some brain-boosting stimulation in a warm, friendly atmosphere with your family and friends.
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[For Seniors] Brain-training quizzes for January: Have fun with New Year and winter trivia (11–20)
A quiz to help with winter life
How about a quiz packed with tips to enjoyably get through the winter cold? It’s designed so older adults can join in, too.
It’s full of practical wisdom for everyday life, like preventing static electricity and keeping indoor air from getting too dry.
Solving the quiz can also prompt you to recall your own experiences.
Focusing on the answers can help stimulate your brain as well.
It might even give you conversation topics to share with your grandchildren.
Precisely because it’s a cold season, let’s keep both mind and body lively with a warm, enjoyable quiz that helps you learn.
Hard-to-read kanji in season in winter
There are so many delicious foods in winter, like ingredients you put in hot pots.
This time, we’re introducing a kanji quiz themed around foods that are in season during winter! It helps to make it easier to answer by starting with simpler questions—like one about mikan (mandarin oranges).
Also, showing pictures or illustrations of the foods when reviewing the answers makes things easier to understand.
It’s also a good idea to ask older adults about their favorite winter foods and include those in the quiz.
To boost motivation, consider preparing a small prize for anyone who gets all the answers correct.
Word-scramble quiz: “Speaking of New Year’s…”
This is a game where you rearrange hiragana to complete words related to New Year’s! Even a simple four-letter word like “takoage” (kite flying) can be confusing when the order is scrambled, like “geakota.” Start with shorter words and gradually increase the length.
If you want to raise the difficulty further, we recommend mixing the hiragana from two words and having players form two words from the jumbled characters.
You can also tailor the challenge to the situation—for example, by specifying the first letter.
A quiz on the names of things related to New Year’s (Oshogatsu)
This is a quiz to recall the names of New Year–related items that you surely see at least once a year! We’ll show photos and illustrations and have you provide their official names.
In everyday life, when you say things like “Pass me that!” or “How do you use this?”, the exact names of things can slip your mind.
New Year items in particular come up less often in conversation, so they’re even easier to forget.
This makes for an effective brain-training exercise to revive fading memories.
Hyakunin Isshu Quiz! 6 Selected Winter Poems
Let’s pick out poems related to winter from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and turn them into a quiz! For example, place two poems that include the word “asaborake,” which means dawn, side by side and blank out the asaborake part, or line up poems that contain the two words “white” and “mist” and make fill-in-the-blank questions.
Grouping poems that share common words makes it easier for the answers to come to mind.
The Hyakunin Isshu is something almost everyone memorized at least once in childhood.
After recalling them through a quiz, why not actually play together and bask in the nostalgia?