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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:

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Look – learn to focus your attention on the new 
information you wish to remember.  Slow down, take 
a deep breath, and ignore distractions. 

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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.

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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.  

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. 

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 memorized 
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.

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 exer-
cises (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.

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Sequence – In this brain game your objective is to 
put the random numbers in the grid into the proper 
sequence 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.

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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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