Popular Mind-Enhancing Facebook Games for Seniors
AUTHORS, Dementia, Alzheimers, Games, Karl Edmunds, SENIOR HEALTH, SENIOR LIVING |
Online Games for Seniors
Where can I find games on the internet? What are the best games to play? These questions and many others highlight the desire by seniors to use the internet for games and mental stimulation. And one of the premier sites to find stimulating games is Facebook.
Facebook games offer seniors a way to break free from the strenuous jobs at home or office or simply as a relief from boredom. Breaks in daily routines are necessary, to clear mind, relieve stress and provide alternative forms of stimulation. Fortunately, Facebook has a wide variety of games that seniors can enjoy.
The best thing about Facebook games is they are no nonsense online games. They are not hard to understand and learn. And with a good variety of games to choose from, you can find one that offers the entertainment you want and a great escape.
Most of the games options will help keep your mental faculties sharp, improve reaction time, and memory and most of all provide great fun.
Three of these popular mind games offered by Playfish are the following:
Who Has the Biggest Brain
This Facebook game evaluates how much intelligence the player possesses or how smart or equipped he/she is for a particular field. In this game, your knowledge is tested in a variety of ways including spatial recognition, number ordering, and math. In each area, it is necessary to combine correctness and speed, to achieve the highest score possible. Challenge your friends. See who really is the smartest. When the game is finished you will understand which learning dimension you score the highest or which dimension you are most suited for.
Geo Challenge
“Geo Challenge” is similar to the “Who Has The Biggest Brain” except it only requires one specific learning skill – your ability to match the geographical markers as speedily as you can. For instance, the first round presents a country name with several different flags to choose from. You must correctly match the country with the flag; the second level shows the shape of a country and requires that you correctly match name with shape. And it continues through various matching sequences. For those that love geography and maps, this game is a keeper. And it challenges your reaction time and memory skills as well.
Word Challenge
In this game, the player is provided with six shuffled letters. Similar to Scrabble, the challenge is to think of many words as you can get from out of those letters within a fixed period of time.
Your challenge is to find a six letter word to use all the available letters and as many smaller words as well. When this is achieved, you can obtain a new set of letters and repeat the process. You finish the game when your time expires. You can add to this game by challenging your friends to compete for the top score of the week, month or beating an all-time high score achieved by you or someone else.
Word Challenge is one of the most popular word Facebook games and is specifically designed to boost the players’ vocabulary skills. Beyond vocabulary, you must learn to make the right decisions about word choice and size. Forming small words earns fewer points but takes less time while creating longer words offers more points but may take more time.
Regardless of your choice, the internet is can be a gamers paradise for seniors and offer hours of fun and challenge. Tags: Games for seniors, senior online games
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