Strong Mind Puzzles to Build & Strengthen Emotional Intelligence

Strong Mind Puzzles is a game designed to challenge your brain. In her 35 years of cognitive restructuring practice, Dr. Markus created a series of paper-and-pencil puzzles to explore new ways to challenge the brain and rehearse cognitive abilities. To reach beyond her clinical practice, these puzzles were converted to a mobile format which provide numerous, varied opportunities for learning.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	$29.99	Donalee Markus	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Strong Mind Puzzles to Build & Strengthen Emotional Intelligence Screenshot on iOS

Effective problem-solving and decision-making is based, at least in part, on the number of variables a problem solver or decision maker is capable of evaluating.

With deliberate rehearsal, individuals can learn to increase the number of variables that they use to make a decision.

-- Why Finding Mistakes Develops Critical Thinking Behaviors

Strong Mind Puzzles can help reduce mistakes. Think about what happens when you make a mistake. You become emotionally attached to the mistake. As a result, this emotional investment makes it difficult to examine results objectively. Such reasoning helps explain why we are better at catching other people's mistakes than our own errors.

These puzzles give you practice in identifying and learning to anticipate errors. When you are comparing and contrasting images you search for mistakes. With practice, this develops an error-detection reflex.

Reviews

Liking the revamped version!
Supersillywill

Thanks for the revamp! This app has definitely helped on my recovery from a mTBI. Some critique of this latest version: 1) what happened to the saved progress? The quick “Play Now” button helped users start off where they last finished. 2) I cannot utilize the Expert level at all as some of the color differences are so subtle that the color-blind amongst us (yes that’s me) deeply struggle to discern the shapes’ colors. I particularly am red-green color-blind and find the yellow/green, pink/purple, and green/red impossible to sort out despite applying different backgrounds and adjusting lighting. PLEASE put in an option to change shape color schemes!

v3.01 (23 May 2018) is buggy
MathPoly

I like v2.5 of Strong Minds, but find v3.0 to be very awkward (with a variety of bugs and poor design choices); my initial impression is that v3.0 is a late-alpha/early-beta for a promising redesign of a very good tool. I will keep v2.5 on my iPod (and wish I knew how to un-upgrade v3.0 from my iPad). I have emailed the developer with my offer to provide detailed comments; I will update this review no later than mid-June 2018. 25-May — Minor update to my prior (17-May) review: v3.01 has a partial fix to bugs involving display of app's Help about images. The developer has not yet responded to my email.

So many levels, easy to challenging!
Pu22led

It's so nice to have a puzzle app that actually makes me think in more ways than one! While the graphics are simple, the puzzles are complicated. If you want to challenge yourself, I fully recommend it.

Amazing and fun
Savysilver

I love the colors. I like being able to do this when I'm waiting in airports especially. It helps the time go by and I feel I am using a part of my brain that doesn't get challenged. I want to know when the next level will come out!

Awesome
Sum1hukilsu jk

My math tutor told me to get this app because it is suppose to challenge a bunch of my brain that I usually don't challenge and therefore smarter and it is really great he is also a big admirer of the woman who designed it

Not worth it
Dr007ebyl

There are only 9 levels. It us effortless and you will be done the entire app in 15 min. Don't bother with this one.

STRONG MIND PUZZLES
diamond47

Great mind game. Fun & Fast.

Unimpressed..
ElCazador_7

The nine levels of difficulty are not very challenging. I love the concept and the fact that it says the test is used by scientists and engineers sounded promising, but even on level 9 I barely broke a mental sweat..

Saw the review below and had to post
Anon1985

I always played this game on my friends iPod, and I just bought it today. The levels are not incredibly hard like the prior post says, but the game is really challenging if you try to complete each level as fast as you can. At first, each level took me a while to do, maybe 4:00, but now I am able to complete each level in under 2:00. Hope this helps, and I would definitely suggest buying the game. It is fun, and a nice little challenge when you have some downtime.