[For Seniors] Brain-training quizzes for January: Let’s have fun with New Year and winter trivia

Letter Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz

(New Year Edition) [Fill-in-the-Blank Word Quiz] Simple Brain Training! Dementia Prevention for Seniors 105

Fill-in-the-blank word puzzles are a staple of quizzes! Many seniors have probably tried them at least once.

Here we have a fill-in-the-blank quiz featuring words related to New Year’s.

With items like “◯◯ shidama” and “hatsu◯ no ◯,” the difficulty isn’t very high, so please give it a try.

That said, even familiar words can be hard to recall once they’re turned into blanks.

If you look closely at the symbols, you can tell whether the same character or different characters go in the blanks—use that as a hint when you think it through.

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Hot Spring Resort Quiz

Brain Training for Seniors: Prefecture Quiz – Hot Springs Edition – Guaranteed to Be a Hit! Perfect for Elderly Care Activities

How about enjoying some time with a quiz themed around January? New Year’s events, foods, and decorations bring up lots of unfamiliar items and words.

Let’s make the most of the knowledge and experiences unique to older adults and take on challenges like difficult kanji and trivia questions.

It’s fun to recall what you know and make new discoveries.

It’s also nice to check the answers together and let old memories blossom into conversation.

Spend a delightful time with your loved ones—one that both brings joy and helps stimulate the brain.

Chinese cabbage quiz

[For senior facilities / Brain training] We’ve made a quiz about winter’s seasonal taste, Chinese cabbage! ⭐ Why not think about Chinese cabbage together? ⭐ The delicious season for Chinese cabbage has arrived!!! Daily lively brain training!!!

Although Chinese cabbage is sold year-round at supermarkets, its true season is winter.

It shows up on the table more often this time of year—in hot pots, stews, or salads.

So let’s try a quiz about Chinese cabbage.

The questions cover things you might not know, like its flowers, where it’s grown, and how many leaves it has.

Even if you don’t get all the answers right, by the end of the quiz you’re sure to know more about Chinese cabbage.

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Spot the difference quiz: “Cold winter illustration”

Spot the Difference Game: Brain Training with Winter Cold Illustrations / Recreation to Help Prevent Dementia and Memory Decline in Seniors

This is a quiz where you line up illustrations—such as winter landscapes—and have players find the differences between the two images.

Arrange various types of discrepancies, like color differences or quantity differences, in a clever way.

The act of comparing the images to spot mistakes also makes it perfect for brain training.

Key points include adjusting how easy the differences are to find and using big differences to camouflage smaller ones.

It’s also important to fine-tune the number of differences and the time limit to set the difficulty level.

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Spot the Difference Quiz: Winter Living Edition

Spot the Difference Quiz #4: Winter Living Edition [Brain Training]

This is a quiz where you line up winter-themed photos and have people figure out what’s different.

When questions are presented with photos, it feels harder to spot mistakes than with illustrations, because of things like how the light falls.

Differences in number or color are classic, easy-to-understand mistakes, but try adjusting the difficulty by incorporating differences in length or size.

It might also be interesting to focus on the object placed in the center, with the mistakes hidden in the softly blurred background.

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Spring Seven Herbs Quiz

From a large variety of grasses, select the 'Seven Herbs of Spring' and complete the proper 'Seven-Herb Rice Porridge'!

Nanakusa-gayu, a rice porridge made with the seven herbs of spring, is loved as a dish that soothes the stomach after the indulgences of New Year’s.

Let’s think about what those seven herbs—iconic ingredients of January—actually are.

It’s common to memorize them in a tanka-like rhythm, so some people might be able to recite them in time with the chant.

Many of them also have alternate names—like “suzushiro,” which is another name for “daikon”—so let’s learn what each one refers to as well.

In addition, there are the seven flowers of autumn, considered a counterpart to the spring seven herbs.

It could be fun to learn about those too.

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[Cake Day] What is this food?

[Daily 15-Second Activity] [January Quiz Video for Seniors] Activity for the 6th (Cake Day) supervised by a Certified Recreation Care Worker! [Question] 'What is this food?' [Answer] 'Custard cake'

This is a video quiz where the camera moves in so close that you can’t tell what you’re looking at, and then gradually pulls back to reveal the answer.

The idea is to have participants guess before the full picture is shown, with quicker correct answers earning higher points—a flow that should be easy to understand.

Even with everyday foods we normally eat, we rarely get the chance to observe their surfaces up close, so it’s surprisingly hard to have the answer pop into mind—that’s part of the fun.

Pay attention to the gap between expectation and reality, like when something seems smooth but its surface is actually unexpectedly bumpy.

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