--- product_id: 48106850 title: "Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain (Nintendo DS)" price: "221.95 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/48106850-dr-kawashimas-brain-training-how-old-is-your-brain-nintendo store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Multiplayer up to 15 15 unique brain puzzles 10-min daily sessions Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain (Nintendo DS) **Price:** 221.95 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🧠 Train smarter, not harder — unlock your brain’s true potential! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain (Nintendo DS) - **How much does it cost?** 221.95 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/48106850-dr-kawashimas-brain-training-how-old-is-your-brain-nintendo) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Daily Brain Boost:** Just 10 minutes a day to sharpen your mental edge. - • **Track Your Progress:** Get your brain age score and watch your mental fitness improve. - • **Competitive Multiplayer:** Challenge up to 15 players and prove your brain’s youth. - • **Touch & Voice Interaction:** Stylus and microphone input for immersive gameplay. - • **Diverse Cognitive Challenges:** From Sudoku to Stroop tests, engage multiple brain areas. ## Overview Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo DS offers a scientifically designed suite of 15 quick, daily puzzles that stimulate memory, logic, and processing speed. Featuring innovative touch and voice controls, plus multiplayer modes for up to 15 players, it’s the perfect brain workout for busy professionals seeking a fun, measurable way to keep their minds sharp. ## Description In a nutshell: The portable phenomenon that has taken Japan by storm finally hits the UK. Part puzzle game, part self improvement tool this is the only game that’s both lots of fun and good for you – and that’s before you even start on Sudoku! The lowdown: Nothing about this game is ordinary, from the price to the way you hold the DS while playing it (vertically, as if you were reading a book). The basic idea is that you play through a series of puzzles each day, for about 10 minutes, and at the end of each session the "age" of your brain is calculated. The puzzles themselves range from simple maths questions to spot the difference, memorisation and comprehension. All of the answers are inputted either by drawing the answer on the touchscreen or speaking it into the DS’s in-built microphone. There’s also a multiplayer mode for up to 15 people where you can try and compete to record the youngest brain age. Most exciting moment: A brand new addition to the game, not included in the Japanese version, is a special DS version of Sudoku. This works great on the DS’s touch screen and is worth the already low price of admission on its own. Since you ask: A sister title to Brain Training, named Big Brain Academy, is due for release in July and offers to "weigh" your brain and improve specific skills such as memorisation and analysis. A direct sequel to Brain Training has also been released in Japan but is not yet scheduled for released in the UK. The bottom line: The only game that really is for the whole family – from kids to OAPs. Harrison Dent Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: "How Old Is Your Brain?" is the latest Japanese phenomenon on Nintendo DS - and now it's hitting Europe! If you're bored of playing games that don't stretch your brain cells and you'd like to give your grey matter an extensive workout, pick up this program. The tests have been devised in cooperation with Dr. Kawashima himself, a renowned neuroscientist. With Brain Training you can train both your mental awareness and your memory. Hold the DS vertically, like a book, and write your answers with the stylus on the touch screen. The exercises are quick challenges that help stimulate your brain. There's a combination of arithmetic, reading and memory tests, and the program calculates your score in the form of a 'brain age' by assessing the speed and accuracy by which you perform these simple tasks. The title has sold over 1.4 million copies in Japan and is hugely popular with young and old alike. And that's hardly surprising - because playing regularly for just a few minutes a day has been found to stimulate parts of the brain related to thinking, creativity and concentration. So if you want to tone your intellectual muscle, Brain Training is a fine way to get started! Review: Its entertaining .. - I find it keeps me on the ball as far as numerics etc. Although I would say that practice makes perfect. Stop using it and you drop down the rankings. It doesn't make you smarter..If you can't count .. this is not going to help...but it's entertaining! Review: Perfect for the 30-something 'gamer' - I bought this for my Christmas DS lite. Since then I've barely missed a day! I'm really enjoying it; a little workout for my brain every day! Unlike other reviewers I have had no problem at all with voice recognition on the famous Stroop test (the one where you have to say the colour a word is written in, rather than the colour the word says - surprisingly tricky!). I'm also having no difficulty with character recognition when writing numbers on the screen. So I've had a wonderful experience with this. If you do have difficulty with either of these it will impact on your game play as the computer will not register your speedy responses and will mark you down (or wrong). I find the animated head (that introduces the games and gives tips), very irritating, but its a small price to pay. The sudoku is an added attraction for me. You get to unlock more challenges the more you play, which certainly keeps up the interest; for me this has the effect of getting me to spend longer and longer on the programme every day as I feel compelled to do every challenge every day. I started with a 'brain age' of 64 (rather worrying!), and after a month, have reached the holy grail - a brain age of 20! Highly recommended. I also love Professor Latyon and the Curious Village and have bought Pandora's Box (but still too engrossed with Brain training to have started it yet). ## Features - Sudoku - Use logic to fill in missing numbers on a grid. - Syllable Count - Count the syllables in well-known phrases. - Reading Aloud - Read classic literature as fast as possible. - Stroop Test - Say the names of colors as they appear. - Word Memory - Memorize words that appear on screen. - Speed Counting - Count to 120 as fast as you can. - Connect Maze - Draw lines to connect letters and numbers in alphabetical and numeric order. - Calculation - Perform simple math problems quickly. - Head Count - Count people as they enter and exit a house. - Triangle Math - Solve math problems in a certain pattern. - Low to High - Memorize the position of numbers, then touch them in order from lowest to highest. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000EGELP0 | | Best Sellers Rank | 10,672 in PC & Video Games ( See Top 100 in PC & Video Games ) 102 in Nintendo DS Games 1,420 in PlayStation Legacy Systems | | Country of origin | United Kingdom | | Customer reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (1,025) | | Is discontinued by manufacturer | Yes | | Item model number | 045496737122 | | Language | English | | Product Dimensions | 13.97 x 12.7 x 1.27 cm; 4.54 g | | Rated | Ages 3 & Over | | Release date | 9 Jun. 2006 | ## Images ![Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain (Nintendo DS) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61rPybatHdL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Its entertaining .. *by S***N on 14 January 2026* I find it keeps me on the ball as far as numerics etc. Although I would say that practice makes perfect. Stop using it and you drop down the rankings. It doesn't make you smarter..If you can't count .. this is not going to help...but it's entertaining! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect for the 30-something 'gamer' *by B***Y on 24 January 2010* I bought this for my Christmas DS lite. Since then I've barely missed a day! I'm really enjoying it; a little workout for my brain every day! Unlike other reviewers I have had no problem at all with voice recognition on the famous Stroop test (the one where you have to say the colour a word is written in, rather than the colour the word says - surprisingly tricky!). I'm also having no difficulty with character recognition when writing numbers on the screen. So I've had a wonderful experience with this. If you do have difficulty with either of these it will impact on your game play as the computer will not register your speedy responses and will mark you down (or wrong). I find the animated head (that introduces the games and gives tips), very irritating, but its a small price to pay. The sudoku is an added attraction for me. You get to unlock more challenges the more you play, which certainly keeps up the interest; for me this has the effect of getting me to spend longer and longer on the programme every day as I feel compelled to do every challenge every day. I started with a 'brain age' of 64 (rather worrying!), and after a month, have reached the holy grail - a brain age of 20! Highly recommended. I also love Professor Latyon and the Curious Village and have bought Pandora's Box (but still too engrossed with Brain training to have started it yet). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brain Age: 49?! There's No Way That Can Be Right! *by T***Y on 4 March 2013* As far as my health is concerned -taking my Type-1 Diabetes into account of course- I would say that I'm in fairly good trim. I mean I'm not a fitness fanatic like Mr. Motivator, but I do go out for 20-30 minute runs at least 5 days a week, and I try to drink as much water as possible. But according to one Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, exercise is also required for the brain. Yep! If you don't train your brain it'll end up with the beer belly of a 1980's dart player. Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training is a DS game card that was apparently designed to make your mind as sharp as a tack...and as quick as a cartoon character jumping off his or her seat after sitting on one. The Brain Training tour guide begins with Daily Training. First you need to fill in some info, in particular the current date and your date of birth. Then after an initial exam to determine how much belly fat that thing behind your eyes has it's time to start your training. At first you'll only be able to do Calculations x20 and x100 and Reading Aloud, but by collecting stamps by going through these tests every day you can unlock other interesting tests to engage yourself with. For example Triangle Math can be a stern trial with two layers of calculations to do. In general it's a nice setup as it gives you the incentive to come back, day after day, to do the tests; and the numerous graphs allow you to keep up to date with your progress and may even motivate you to work harder...I mean mentally. The tests can be really fun to do, and I've sometimes found the urge to do certain tests twice in a day even though the game will only record the first set. Also I believe they can have a positive effect on your brain. I was pretty good at maths while I was at school, and it showed in the Calculations x20 and x100 tests. After a couple of rusty turns I really started to motor. A lot of times I was actually able to focus my eyes on the next question while I was writing out the answer for the current one, and I've regularly clocked sub 20-second times for Calculation x20. Another test that appeared to show improvements in my head was the appropriately named (no really, it is!) Head Count. I struggled with it at first, but after a few goes my brain picked up on a method to keep count of how many little men were in the house, even when there were some entering and exiting the house at the same time. I didn't enjoy all the tests though. For some reason I've continually struggled to memorize words in the Word Memory test. Those 4-letter words just don't wanna stay in my head, and out of a possible 30 the best I've managed (at the time of writing this review) is only 11. It makes me wanna think of 4-letter words of a different kind! Brain Training can hold game data for up to 4 players. But if you don't want any friends or family recording anything, or they don't wanna take the game too seriously, you can always point them in the direction of Quick Play. Here they can try out the stroop test (saying the colour of the words on screen), some maths problems or a quick Sudoku puzzle. It's a nicely presented mode that gets the player use to the feel of the game, and with no scores recorded here they don't have to worry about putting in an embarrassing performance either. The pressure's off. The final mode to talk about here is Sudoku. For anybody who doesn't know the aim of Sudoku is to fill up all the squares in a 3x3 grid with the numbers 1-9 without having the number appearing twice in any row, column or mini 3x3 grid. It seems like a game aimed at the secretaries who drink Diet Coke on their elevenses; but actually the game is surprisingly addictive. There's a large number of different puzzles to tackle, each one getting progressively harder and somehow managing to drag you in and keep you in until you've successfully completed them. It's actually given me a craving to tackle Sudoku puzzles in newspapers and magazines, although I don't expect that craving to last forever. OK, onto the negatives. I`ve played this game for a good solid month, and I'm not entirely convinced by the accuracy of the Brain Age Check. Some days I perform really well on the test and my score is somewhere in the mid 20's, but then there are days where I perform just as good on the test but only get a score somewhere in the mid 40's, leaving me puzzled as to how the DS card came to such a conclusion. Furthermore I've had the occasional bad day where my thinking was too slow and I gave a few wrong answers, yet I still managed a score in the early 30's. All this has lead to me having a brain age graph of numerous and vigorous up and down points, and has left me uncertain as to what kind of condition my brain is actually in. There are a couple of other flaws to mention as well. When it comes to the microphone the game will sometimes claim you gave the wrong answer during the stroop test, even though you actually and clearly called out the correct answer. It's annoying, but it's even more annoying during the Voice Calculation test when you're trying to pronounce the correct answer of "six." The game thinks you've said "five" or "seven" or "two", but never "six." One time I said "six" to the same question a dozen times and tried pronouncing the number a dozen different ways, but it would still not accept the answer -even though it was correct- and it lead to me gnashing my teeth so heavily I needed replacement dentures afterwards. Also the game doesn't always understand what letters you've tried to write down during the Word Memory test, and can lose you some valuable time whilst you're trying to write down as many words as possible. If you're buying this game boxed and complete then there should be a small booklet in the case showing you how to write the letters on the touch screen so that the game will understand them. But if not you'll be doing a fair amount of irritating trial-and-error writing before you finally get what you want. If you can put up with its notable flaws then Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training is a DS game card worth slotting into the back of your DS or 3DS. The presentation is tidy; the various tests are intriguing enough to tackle again and again; and those Sudoku puzzles are strangely hypnotizing in a good way. Hey, wait a minute...the 3 goes THERE...now I'm making progress again! 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