Comments on: New Brain Game - Top Chimp! http://www.lumosity.com/blog/new-brain-game-top-chimp/ Brain games, neuroscience news, and the best brain health information. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:04:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Abhijit http://www.lumosity.com/blog/new-brain-game-top-chimp/#comment-5376 Abhijit Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:41:17 +0000 http://www.lumosity.com/blog/?p=224#comment-5376 Excellent and Addictive - I was a fan of your chimp game http://games.lumosity.com/chimp.html and this is more interesting. You can add a graph to show the progress as one climbs up the stages. That will make it more stimulating. Excellent and Addictive -
I was a fan of your chimp game http://games.lumosity.com/chimp.html and this is more interesting. You can add a graph to show the progress as one climbs up the stages. That will make it more stimulating.

]]> By: Oscar http://www.lumosity.com/blog/new-brain-game-top-chimp/#comment-5374 Oscar Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:32:42 +0000 http://www.lumosity.com/blog/?p=224#comment-5374 These monkeys gave my brain a challenging work out. It feels great!!! Just like having a physical work out. My brain feels like there are tiny little pin balls still knocking around up there & I would relate it to my heart beating very hard after a good cardio workout. Time to relax a day or so & do it again..........WOW I love it!!! These monkeys gave my brain a challenging work out. It feels great!!! Just like having a physical work out. My brain feels
like there are tiny little pin balls still knocking around up there & I would relate it to my heart beating very hard after a good cardio workout. Time to relax a day or so & do it again……….WOW I love it!!!

]]> By: Liz K. http://www.lumosity.com/blog/new-brain-game-top-chimp/#comment-5322 Liz K. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:03:32 +0000 http://www.lumosity.com/blog/?p=224#comment-5322 This could be quite addictive! Initial thoughts: For the first few rounds, I had no idea why I was playing against the chimp. That is, I did not understand how I was supposed to be competing against him, as we were getting the series of 4 guesses correct each time. Then when I was allowed to increase or decrease my chip bets, I wasn't sure what that meant. Was I still going to get 4 numbers, but getting them correct equaled 5 points? Did speed factor in to winning? I increased it to 5, and figured it out. My competitor didn't raise his wager to 5 until several rounds later. That means that I was able to build a small lead that he was never going to be able to catch up to. 5 was enough numbers for me to recall without problems. Thus I did not see the monkey as a threat -- really I was playing against my own memory. My guess is that in the later rounds, the monkeys get bolder in their wagering, and my pressure increases, as they don't make mistakes. Hope this helps! Keep it up! This could be quite addictive! Initial thoughts:
For the first few rounds, I had no idea why I was playing against the chimp. That is, I did not understand how I was supposed to be competing against him, as we were getting the series of 4 guesses correct each time.

Then when I was allowed to increase or decrease my chip bets, I wasn’t sure what that meant. Was I still going to get 4 numbers, but getting them correct equaled 5 points? Did speed factor in to winning? I increased it to 5, and figured it out.

My competitor didn’t raise his wager to 5 until several rounds later. That means that I was able to build a small lead that he was never going to be able to catch up to. 5 was enough numbers for me to recall without problems. Thus I did not see the monkey as a threat — really I was playing against my own memory.

My guess is that in the later rounds, the monkeys get bolder in their wagering, and my pressure increases, as they don’t make mistakes.

Hope this helps! Keep it up!

]]> By: Liz K. http://www.lumosity.com/blog/new-brain-game-top-chimp/#comment-5321 Liz K. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:54:44 +0000 http://www.lumosity.com/blog/?p=224#comment-5321 FYI, the green "Play here" button goes to a non-page. FYI, the green “Play here” button goes to a non-page.

]]> By: Memory Games http://www.lumosity.com/blog/new-brain-game-top-chimp/#comment-5259 Memory Games Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:09:13 +0000 http://www.lumosity.com/blog/?p=224#comment-5259 The game is really wonderful... Lumosity is really great in designing such games! The game is really wonderful… Lumosity is really great in designing such games!

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