The Brain Game
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So the latest app to hit my Facebook News Feed is The Brain Game by Fendoo, Ltd. At the rapid pace of these news feeds I’m quickly learning which of my friends are right brained and which are left brained. The Brain Game promises to tell you which side of the brain you use the most by playing this “simple and amazing” game. It also takes the liberty of informing all of your friends of your results.
Brain Surgery
The Brain Game is able to determine this using a completely non-invasive method that is as “simple” as advertised. Without spoiling too much of the fun, the basic premise is that you stare at an animation of a spinning dancer’s silhouette.
Based on the direction she appears to be spinning to you, clockwise or “anti-clockwise” (counter-clockwise), The Brain Game will determine if you are right brained or left brained. It says I am right brained.
The Result
The Brain Game works exactly as advertised. It’s incredibly simple. It only took me 2 minutes from install to results. That includes the bonus brain teaser game they throw in after you get your test results.
Unfortunately for me though the “amazing” part is lacking, mostly because I’ve already seen this optical illusion elsewhere on the Internet. I am also able to change the direction of the dancer at will simply depending on what part of the screen I am looking at. While it is possible that I am whole brained as other test have shown in the past, it is more likely that the science behind this test isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
If you are like me though and enjoy brain teasers you will probably get a couple minutes of fun out of The Brain Game and more fun seeing the results from your friends. You probably won’t keep it installed though since it doesn’t provide any continued value or service.
Uninstalled
November 26th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
haha wow. I saw this app and wondered if it was just that stupid animation. I saw this on a blog post and thought it was pretty neat. It definately does not need to be an app.
won’t be installing this one.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:30 am
I’m suprised you gave it two stars. I would have given it one.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
You know thi is all fake.
The imae is made that after some time it actually turns the other way. Try staring just at the hair, you will see at one point that the image starts turning the other way. This is not a real test. am pretty sure that most of the people will get results as Right Brained because thats how the image starts.
December 5th, 2007 at 10:53 am
of course its not real, its for fun 🙂 also its not designed to trick ppl any one way. i actually first saw it go left and i can, at will, force it to move in any direction. its called an optical illusion.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
well I’m sorry but I can only see it going clockwise, never anti-clockwise