Brain Game: By the Rules
Posted on September 20, 2008
This new exercise will work your mental flexibility, logical problem solving, and working memory abilities. We’re still putting the final touches on it, so send us your feedback so we can keep making it better.
You can find By the Rules here: http://games.lumosity.com/by_the_rules.html
Sep 24, 2008
Seems like a good test, feels as though it might be good working through or warming up through the lower levels each round rather than restarting at the highest levels reached.
It might be worthwhile getting some idea of what techniques people getting to different levels are using. Like for perambulating rolling, crawling, tottering, walking, running are all part of a sequence and have some use. For example for penguin panic memorising where to move while its still is one technique and moving the directions reference with each turn is another.
Sep 25, 2008
I liked it, apart from one time in level 6 where I couldn’t find the first rule at all, even by cheating (writing each card into a text document). There really was no similarity in the cards that followed the rule. Could that be a bug?
1. Will there be more levels?
2. How about something like a “see the rule” option at the end or after you’ve used more than a certain amount of x cards?
Sep 27, 2008
It is very good that you continue adding new games.
Sep 29, 2008
I also think like Kay that the game should show the last rule at the end if the user doesn’t get the rule.
I had two times the experience that I went through all the cards and didn’t found the rule (on of those times with noting shapes on paper).
Oct 13, 2008
By the Rules: The game is good, but there needs to be more levels of difficulty. Level 6 quickly becomes pretty routine and boring. If there aren’t more levels, I won’t revisit it often.
Dec 04, 2008
kay, there is a similarity between the cards, you probably just didn’t notice a feature of the cards that highlights the pattern or similarity between the cards. i had the same experience you had playing level 6, until i played the game again and noticed a feature of the cards that i didn’t notice or realize before.
and i don’t think they should reveal the rule if you were unable to figure out the pattern or similarity. keeping the rule hidden just forces you to examine and investigate the cards deeper in order to move on to the next level, which, in turn, could develop a person’s eye for details.
Oct 17, 2009
I have the same problem as Kay. I made a full chart with all five categories (number, color, shape, filled, thick/line outline) and there was simply no pattern. If there is another category that I am missing please post it, if not there must be a bug.
Jan 21, 2010
There are 6 characteristics to look out for when you reach level 6; number, colour, shape, fill, outline and internal lines (diagonal / horizontal / vertical).
May 11, 2010
I agree that there should be more levels!
Also, the scoring is somewhat arbitrary, since there is a fair amount of lucky guessing involved to get the highest score.
It would be nice if the first three or four cards were not counted, but used to be able to establish the sorting rule. That way, scoring would depend solely on logic, not guesswork.