Mental-skill games Mental-skill games The abacus system of mental calculation is a system where users mentally visualize an abacus to do calculations. No physical abacus is used; only the answers are written down. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abacus system"
Cheddar Gorge is a word game often played on the BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. In terms of audience popularity is third only to the famous Mornington Crescent and the allegedly obscure One Song To The Tune Of Another. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheddar Gorge (game)"
Cognitive Maps, Mental Maps, Mind Maps, Cognitive Models, or mental models are a type of mental processing, or cognition, composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual can acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment. Here, 'cognition' can be used to refer to the mental models, or belief systems, that people use to perceive, contextualize, simplify, and make sense of otherwise complex problems. As they have been studied in various fields of science, these mental models are often referred to, variously, as cognitive maps, scripts, schemata, and frames of reference. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cognitive map"
Lights Out is an electronic puzzle game, originally created by Hasbro. The game is a 5x5 grid of lights, and when the game starts, a sequence of these lights (random, or one of a set of stored puzzle patterns) are switched on. Pressing one of the lights will toggle it and the four adjacent lights between on and off. The aim of the game is to switch all the lights off. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lights Out (game)"
Mastermind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. The board game may have been inspired by moo, a computer program written in the late 1960s by J. M. Grochow at MIT in the PL/I computer language for the Multics operating system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mastermind (board game)"
Mental calculation is the practice of doing mathematical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from any computing devices. It is practiced as a sport in the Mind Sports Olympiad. Mental calculation is said to improve mental capability, speed of response, memory power and concentration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mental calculation"
A mind map (or mind-map) is a diagram used for linking words and ideas to a central key word or idea. It is used to visualize, classify, structure, and generate ideas, as well as an aid in study, problem solving, and in making decisions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mind map"
Nomic is a game in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually through a system of democratic voting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nomic"
Oleg Stepanov ( ; 1961) is a world-renowned expert on mind sports. He has particular expertise in the board games Pente, Renju, Shogi and Othello ( Reversi), and is widely regarded as the leading authority on mental calculation and its history. Stepanov is currently chairman of the Qualifying Committee of the Renju International Federation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oleg Stepanov (polymath)"
One-word-at-a-time is a type of theatre sports game, where two (or more) people compose an improvised story, each adding just one word at a time. It tends to generate comic and unexpected outcomes, and separates each individual from direct responsibility for the overall story. ...more on Wikipedia about "One-word-at-a-time"
PhotoReading is a purportedly "whole-mind system" which it is claimed, allows people to read books at speeds exceeding 25,000 words per minute. It is based partly on common beliefs about the human brain's cerebral hemispheres, and pseudoscientific conjecture concerning brain waves. ...more on Wikipedia about "PhotoReading"
A quiz is a form of game or puzzle in which the players (as individuals or in teams), attempt to answer questions correctly. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quiz"
Speed reading is a method of reading rapidly by assimilating several words or phrases at a glance or by skimming. ...more on Wikipedia about "Speed reading"
The Game is an abstract, self-referential game where the primary goal is for players to forget they are "playing". Gameplay involves a player announcing when he or she has thought about the game and (temporarily) "lost". Since its spread to new players via word-of-mouth is explicitly encoded in its rules, The Game serves as a powerful example of a meme. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Game (game)" www.shortopedia.com for you!
:For the actual mathematics of the Vedic period, see Sulba Sutras and Indian mathematics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vedic mathematics"
The World Quizzing Championship is an individual quiz contest organised by the International Quizzing Association - a not for profit organisation based in England. The competition has been staged annually since 2003 with an increasing number of contestants from several nations. ...more on Wikipedia about "World Quizzing Championship"
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