The Headgame games

Fifteen short games, each one built on a classic task from cognitive research. Open a game, play it live in your browser, and see what it asks of you, where it comes from and what it does on your weekly card.

The six daily games

Every morning the app picks three of them, one per stat. They are the games that build your weekly card.

Duel Simple visual reaction time Daily game, Reflexes 20 s Grid Visual search speed Daily game, Reflexes 30 s Sequence Visuospatial short-term memory Daily game, Memory 1 min Constellation Memory for position and order Daily game, Memory 1 min Go/no-go Response inhibition Daily game, Focus 20 s Color Interference control Daily game, Focus 20 s

Bonus and reasoning

Quick Math and 7 Letters come back in the bonus of the day, and Logic closes the routine with a series to think through. Pure practice, never graded.

Quick Math Arithmetic speed Bonus game 40 s 7 Letters Word finding under time pressure Bonus game 90 s Logic Spotting the rule of a series Reasoning game 1 min

Lab games

Three research classics in free play, visual search, symbol coding and pattern memory. Never graded, there to explore.

Odd One Careful visual search Lab game 20 s Symbols Processing speed Lab game 30 s Pattern Memory for a visual pattern Lab game 1 min

Season games

One new game per season. Each one starts in free play and joins a stat once its reliability is measured.

Start Reaction to the lights going out Season 2 game 25 s The Code Digit span Season 3 game 1 min Flock Selective attention Season 4 game 20 s

Short games, one skill each

Each Headgame game takes 20 to 90 seconds and works one precise skill, reaction speed, memory, focus, visual search or reasoning. Short on purpose, so a round fits in the moment you would have spent scrolling.

The research behind that choice is solid. Practising a task makes you sharper at that task (Simons et al., 2016), and scores on a repeated cognitive test rise with practice (Scharfen et al., 2018a). Every game page names the classic task it comes from, with its source.

From the games to your card

Six games feed the three brain stats of your weekly card, two per stat. Duel and Grid for Reflexes, Sequence and Constellation for Memory, Go/no-go and Color for Focus. Every morning the app picks one game per stat, on a calendar that is the same for every player.

Your card also holds three discipline stats, fed by your phone down sessions. On Sunday the six become figures from 1 to 99, an overall score and a rank. The other games are there to play and never count on the card, until a season game proves its reliability and joins a stat.

All tests

Sources

  1. Simons D.J., Boot W.R., Charness N. et al. (2016). Do brain training programs work? Psychological Science in the Public Interest 17(3), 103 to 186. doi.org/10.1177/1529100616661983
  2. Scharfen J., Peters J.M., Holling H. (2018). Retest effects in cognitive ability tests, a meta-analysis. Intelligence 67, 44 to 66. doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.01.003

Headgame

Your full card, every Sunday.

Three 20 second games each morning, phone down sessions, and a card with six stats revealed every Sunday. Coming soon to the App Store, Google Play next.

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