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Slideshow: Brain Age Gooses Your Gray Matter

Can a Nintendo DS game make you smarter? Japan's national obsession hits the United States this week, threatening to turn America into a nation of super-intelligent beings, doomed to be crushed by its own hubris. By Chris Kohler.
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As you complete daily training, you'll get stamps on the in-game calendar showing your diligence (or lack thereof).

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Memorize all these words in two minutes, then see how many you can recall. At first, it won't be many.
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Brain Age

increases blood flow to a player's cerebral cortex.
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One of many brain challenges asks you to connect numbers and letters -- A-1, B-2, C-3. Can you do it without getting confused?
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Triangle Math challenges you to keep a variety of mental math problems going on in your head simultaneously.
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If you're only 25 years old, a brain age of 48 isn't exactly spry. Try harder!
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Brain Age

easily the best Sudoku video game available -- and it's only a bonus mode!