Stupid Game Free

Well, at one level, this IS a stupid game! At another, it's brilliant. Some of the puzzles are challenging; others routine. Many take the form of showing you the word "red" colored in green and the word "green" colored red and asking you to tap on the green word. (This is my example, not one of theirs, but it's of their ilk.). That's challenging, and even once you figure out the principle behind the tricks, it can still be engaging. There are other clever puzzles-- one that reminds me of the blue jay's much vaunted ability to count how many people are still behind a tree. The app has the potential to be of great medical, developmental, and gerontological use. It could be used to gauge cognitive processing, strengths, and deficiencies. However, there are a several big problems. 1. Like so many games involving levels, once you've bombed, you're back at the start. Very frustrating--and leads to wanting to just delete the app. 2. If you quit the game, you have to start over from the very first level. That's a complete drag. There should be a way of choosing your own level. 3. If you pause the game, the app freezes! You have to force quit it! Making that worse... once that happens, you have to start all over again--at level one. That undermines the appeal of the app greatly. 4. The app's puzzles are generally clever, but highly repetitive. Part of this is because of having to wade through the same levels, but part of this is the use of the same puzzle, sometimes not even in a different form, at higher levels--e.g., playing rock, paper, scissors gets old quickly and involves nothing particularly clever. 5. There needs to be a way of letting the user select any level or puzzle--or, choose to repeat a puzzle. 6. It'd be cool if there were a record mode, so that the player could replay what they did to see what went wrong. 7. In many cases, when you get a puzzle wrong, you're given another chance at it, and keeping things interesting, that sometimes comes in a slightly different form. However, often the big X fills the screen and you're moved on--or all the way back and you have no time to even process what went wrong. Now, it is true that having to go through puzzles again boost's one confidence--and keeps the brain more agile--but, in some cases, things move so quickly that you just pick the right answer even though you really don't know why it is right! In any event, if it were less repetitious and you could repeat any puzzle, choose the level and puzzle you wanted to try, really pause the app, and return to where you left off after a re-launch, it'd be a clear 5 stars. For now, though, the flaws and frustrations outweigh the fun. Bottom line: quirky, but flawed. 3 stars.

I've played a lot of these, and this is a good one. The best thing that separates it from others is that a lot of the puzzles change on every attempt so there is actually some replay value! By the same token some of the puzzles are straight ripped off from the moron test, but the later sections are very challenging. It made my head hurt!

This is really hard for me even though I get straight A's in school. But my brother, who has ADHD aced it easy. But over all it's pretty fun. :)

I'm a psychologist and work with lots of people with ADHD. I recommend it highly for ADHDer's as well as anyone who wants to exercise their brain. This game is a great work-out for just about all aspects of cognitive functioning. Elderly, mid-life, teens, and children will benefit. Thank you for keeping it free.