Junior Brain Trainer (Nintendo DS)

I bought this game for my intelligent 6-year-old daughter. I thought she would be able to play hangman and some other age-appropriate games. however, everything is locked! It looks like you can only unlock one new game a day, and unlocking a game requires you to successfully go through several screens of puzzles. Most of them are incredibly simple, except for the page of multiplication! And not even easy problems - 9x7, etc.! And you can't do anything else until you get the whole page correct! How ridiculous. My daughter lost interest IMMEDIATELY and it has sat on the shelf for three weeks. What a waste of money.

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I bought this for my 3 grandchildren and they loved it. They would play it together and see who can to the next level first. I would recommend this to anyone with young children.

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I bought this game based on the pictures on the back cover and the description. It is supposed to have an "adjustable difficulty for ages 5-11." I set this for my 5 year old and the games were way too hard. I am 34 and I had a little trouble with one game. You were supposed to complete the word and were given p-----l and were given about twelve letters to guess. I only got it through trial and error and I am sure a child who is 5 would not have guessed it and probably is not familiar with the word. Another game required children to match large numbers with their written word (168 with one hundred sixty-eight). Other times the instructions were very vague. There is also to much reading required for small children. I am an elementary teacher and these activities are not appropriate for 5-year olds and probably not any child in Kindergarten through second grade. There was only one activity I found out of about 25 that I thought was appropriate for my son.

There are extras that are only available after completing five levels but only available once a day. I thought the game might be useful if I could unlock all the games for him but only was allowed to unlock one which had no instructions for play.

I do not recommend this game for anyone under age 8 and possibly not even that age.

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