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Dear Brain Gamers,

I am delighted that you are one of the millions of 
people who want to keep their minds sharp and have 
fun doing it.  After two decades studying how we can 
improve memory and prevent Alzheimer’s disease, I 
have found there is a lot we can do.  Genetics accounts 
for only about a third of what determines our health 
as we age – that means that simple, everyday lifestyle 
choices have a major impact on our memory and brain 
fitness.  My books, 

The Memory Bible

The Memory 

Prescription

, and 

The Longevity Bible

, detail my strate-

gies – physical and mental exercise, stress reduction 
techniques, the Healthy Brain Diet, and more – to boost 
your brain power and live longer, better.  However, you 
are well on your way to boosting your brain power by 
playing 

Brain Games

.

Brain Games

 will teach you my basic memory tech-

nique – 

Look

Snap

Connect

 – and help you perfect 

these strategies.  Besides being fun to play, Brain 
Games will help your memory abilities improve almost 
immediately.  You will also “cross-train” your brain with 
left-brain (verbal memory and logical skills – e.g., writ-
ing letters) and right-brain (visual memory and mental 
skills – e.g., reading maps) games.  Brain Games lets 
you monitor your progress, while setting and increasing 
a pace that works for your memory ability as you train 
your brain and gauge your improvement.  

You can use 

Look

Snap

Connect

 for everyday memory 

tasks (lists, errands, names and faces) and build on 
this basic technique to become a memory champion.  
First master the basic skill:

• 

Look

 – learn to focus your attention on the new 

information you wish to remember.  Slow down, take 
a deep breath, and ignore distractions. 

• 

Snap

 – create a mental snapshot or visual image 

in your mind’s eye of what you want to remember.  
Make it personal and give it detail to help fix it into 
your memory.

• 

Connect

 – link up your mental snapshots in you 

mind’s eye.  This association step helps put the new 
memories into context and helps you retrieve them 
later when you need them.

To remember a list of errands, create a story using 

Look

Snap

Connect

:  You need to stop at the store to 

get some aspirin and a hair brush before you meet your 
sister.  In your mind’s eye, you see your sister taking 
some aspirin and then brushing her hair.  

For learning and recalling names and faces, think 
up a 

Name Snap

 and a 

Face Snap

 – then 

Connect

 

these mental pictures or 

Snaps

 together.  Thinking of 

a visual image or 

Snap

 for a name can be easy:  See 

a house for Mr. House, a gold coin for Ms. Gold, or a 
carnival worker for Mrs. Carney.  For more complex 
names, combine visual words that sound like the 
name – see Mr. 

Domachow

 eating chicken chow mein 

under a dome.  For a face snap, look for a distinguish-
ing feature and then connect it to the name snap.  If 
Mrs. Washington has prominent lips, see her kissing 
George Washington on the lips.  At first it may seem a 
bit wacky; however, you’ll not only have fun but you’ll 
improve your everyday memory skills.  Remember-
ing names and faces is the most common memory 
complaint.

Our research group at UCLA has studied the effective-
ness of 

Look

Snap

Connect

, along with other lifestyle 

strategies that improve memory and brain health.  We 
found that after only two weeks, these techniques have 
a significant effect on memory performance scores 
and dramatically increase brain efficiency. The more 
you play 

Brain Games

, the better you’ll get at it and the 

more brain power you’ll have. 

To find out more about the creation of 

Brain Games

visit 

www.drgarysmall.com 

and

 www.brainstorm-

inginc.com

.  

Have fun,

Dr. Gary Small  

Ready to Cross-Train Your Brain!  

Brain Games is a mind stimulating activity for your 
brain.  It’s time to test yourself!  Whether you choose to 
enter the training session or jump right into the BRAIN-
CHECK mode, Brain Games will be sure to challenge 
your mind in several different ways. 

BUTTONS 

ON / START / ENTER – 

 Press the ON button to power 

on the game.  By using the SCROLL buttons on the far 
right of the key pad, toggle through the different game 
modes.  Once your mode is highlighted, press ENTER 
to select.  Next, select the skill level at which you wish 
to play at.  Press ENTER to start the game and confirm 
selection.  

NEW GAME –

 Press this button for two seconds to quit 

your current game, and select your choice of modes.

END ROUND – This allows you to end the current game 
and calculates the score up to that point.  This may be 
most useful in the Word Hunt game when you can not 
think of any more words, but there is still time remain-
ing.  Or Recall when you have already memorised 
words and there is still time remaining.

NEW GAME –

 

This allows you to cancel the current 

game and return to the Main Menu. If selected during 
Braincheck mode, it will cancel your score for that 
session.

KEY PAD –

 Press these buttons when playing each of 

the exercises.  The various keys will work in different 
ways with each of the games.  Most of the time, they 
will represent the same layout as shown on screen or 
correspond to the numbers at the bottom of the screen.

UNDO –

 In some games you can use this button to 

reverse or UNDO a selection, prior to pressing ENTER.

RESET –

 When a blunt point is inserted, this button will 

RESET the game to its original factory settings.

MAIN MENU

BRAINCHECK –

 Select BRAINCHECK from the Main 

Menu to start your daily exercise program.  Choose the 
skill level you wish to play at, and that’s it!  Brain Games 
will now run you through the 5 different exercises 
(described below) of your routine.  This is the mode that 
you will be tested in and that will record your score.  
You can check this in the SCORE mode (see below).  
Remember to use the Look, Snap, Connect technique!

TRAINING –

 This is where you can train or practice the 

different brain games without affecting your score.  Af-
ter pressing the START button, select TRAINING.  Use 
the SCROLL buttons to toggle through the five different 
exercises (Sequence, Flashcard, Mind Game, Word 
Hunt, and Recall) and press Enter to select.  Next, 
choose the skill level you wish to play at.  You are now 
ready to start your training session.

• 

Sequence –

 In this brain game your objective is to put 

the random numbers in the grid into the proper se-
quence or order (lowest to highest).  The numbers in 
the top row of the grid correspond to the places of the 
buttons in the top row of the key pad.  The numbers in 
the second row of the grid correspond to the places 
of the buttons in the second row of the key pad.  If you 
select a number out of sequence an X will appear, and 
you will continue onto the next grid.  If the sequence 
is correct, a check will appear.  There will be several 
grids in each game.  After completing the exercise, 
the game will display how many you got correct.

• 

Flashcard –

 In this brain game your objective is to 

add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers that the 
exercise gives you.  You must answer the equation 
with the correct answer using the key pads that align 
with the number bar at the bottom of the screen.  
Each question is timed.  The higher the skill level, the 
harder the equation.  After completing the exercise, 
the game will display how many you got correct.

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INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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ON / START 

/ ENTER

NEW GAME 

UNDO

Reset

KEY 
PAD

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