The selection of brain-flexing activities are divided into five categories:Identify, Memorize, Analyze, Compute, and Visualize.
You'll need instantaneous decision-making. The key here is trusting your intuition and going with your gut.
Numbers and pictures, order and placement... Commit the information you see to memory.
Read the rules and answer the problems. Not over-thinking things can lead to flashes of insight.
Mental gymnastics, using numbers. The calculations might be simple, but don't underestimate the challenge posted by this Stretch activity!
Using the on-screen figures and shapes as hints, form different combinations and utilize different viewpoints in your mind, until you hit upon the answer.
You can also analyze your cumulative Big Brain Brawn score in Test mode.
Once you've built up a big, brawny brain in the Stretch activities, challenge yourself to Test mode. Solve problems from five categories, and analyze your Big Brain Brawn score. You can figure out your strong and weak categories!
You can also regularly go through Test mode to check how much your score is increasing by.
Whack Match
Whack the mole with the matching picture.
Species Spotlight
Which animal is there more of? Look around with the spotlight.
Frame Filler
Which piece belongs in the ? box? Pay attention to movement.
Fast Focus
What is this a picture of? How fast can you figure it out?
Flash Memory
Memorize the numbers and symbols. Repeat them before you forget.
Memo-Random
Memorize the picture on the card before it flips. Which one was it?
Reverse Retention
Remember the order and answer in reverse.
Covered Cages
Where are the birds? Make the cages go faster if you're up for it.
Cubegame
Count the number of cubes. Try to find the best counting method.
Heavyweight
Which one is heaviest? Don't let looks trick you.
Match Blast
Break blocks to create the same shape as the example on top.
Speed Sorting
Which picture fits the description? There could be more than one answer.
Add Agency
Choose 2 cards that add up to the number shown at the top.
Mallet Math
Whack the blocks you don't need to leave behind the correct total.
Tick-Tock Turn
Rotate the clock hands to match the time.
Balloon Burst
Pop the balloons in order from lowest to highest.
Get In Shape
Pick the pieces that complete the puzzle.
Shadow Shift
Find the pictures that match the shadows.
Train Turn
Add the missing tracks to get the train to the exit.
True View
How would it look if you looked at it from the direction of the arrow.