Some Simple Examples of Memory Games and Practicing Them

Memory games are ideal for persons having difficulty in remembering new faces, names, and phone numbers. People who constantly forget things such as missing their appointments, misplacing articles, and forgetting bill payments or events also benefit a lot from memory games.

Many of us think that medications could improve memory power but basic training methods and certain subtle techniques could do wonders that medications would never achieve. Our first failure to register all the information that we see or hear, our second failure to retain such information in the mind, and the failure to retrieve the relevant information in time are the three basic problems for poor memory. Let us consider certain methods by which these difficulties could be overcome.

If you are not able to remember a fresh face when you meet a new person, start observing carefully the various special features of that person's face, such as forehead, eyes, eyebrows, ears, nose, mouth, hairline, chin, complexion, etc. Once you have found something that resembles one or more features of a person already known to you, associate the name and face of the new person with the other person in your mind. This way, you would be able to recollect the new person immediately, when you meet him again.

If you have difficulty in remembering the names of new people whom you meet, ask them to repeat their name a few times during the initial conversation. Use their name as often as possible when you talk to them. If you feel that their name is unusual, ask for the exact spelling and any information related to such a peculiar name. If possible, obtain the card of that person and look at it at least once a day. This would help you in never forgetting the name of the new person that you met.

Phone numbers are much more difficult to remember. However, the same method described above, i.e., writing the name of the person you met and the phone number and looking at a few times a day would help you remember the phone number also easily. For fast retrieval, you should try to recollect the features of the new person, the name, and the phone number every five minutes in the beginning, then every fifteen minutes, every hour, every day, and finally every week should be retrieved from your mind and recollected. This would help you overcome your problem of retaining information in your memory and retrieving them.

For example, the word, menagerie, would have one letter in each box in a square containing 9 boxes. You should try to find the correct word within about 10 seconds. If you are not able to do it, then the online website would provide you the answer. The words would not be easy ones. Difficult words like combatant and the first example, menagerie, would be used. If you go on playing these memory games, your processing speed would increase and the function of your brain would become faster. Your memory problems would slowly decrease and then disappear altogether.