Playful thinking
Classic “concentration” game — behind each tile is an image. They are 12 familiar things you’d see at the beach. Click on a tile to turn it over and reveal an image. Then select a second tile, trying to find the matching image. If the images match, the tiles are removed from the board. Try to see how few turns you need to remove all of the tiles. A great score is 18-25, a good score is 26-30, over 30 — try again! – Play it here.
I needed 38 turns, which made me think: How many turns are needed if you cheat, i.e. if you write down every card you look at?
October 31st, 2009 at 3:01 am
18 ^_^. But I play these games often, timed. I say the identifying words in my head or outloud in order from left to right top to bottom over and over while I do it and then take the identifying words out of the order when I remove them. It’s tricky at first, especially removing them and keeping the word order.
October 31st, 2009 at 4:38 am
Daniel’s response references a memory tool others use well but for some reason it doesn’t help me much — At least I haven’t noticed much of a difference whether I do that or not.
A sales consultant (trains sales people how to sell) once met with about 50 of us a few years back and I was blown away by one neat little trick he used:
When I walked in he asked my name. I told him “Michael” to which he replied “Hi, Michael”. He did this for all fifty or so of us. About an hour into the presentation we started to realize the guy knew every one of us by name still. He never once forgot a name the entire week he was with us. Pretty impressive.
I, on the other hand, can meet a couple along with their kid and their dog but will almost immediately forget all names except for the dog’s. All of our neighbors are named “Thunder’s owners”, “Felony’s owners”, “Rex’s owners”, etc.
October 31st, 2009 at 9:03 am
I usually say color+name as identifiers, but depending on complexity I might just drop down to color or name.