Free Brain Training Games
Free brain training in about 4 minutes a day, with no sign-up. Play four quick games for memory, focus, speed and logic, picked each day from eight, get your daily Brain score out of 1,000, and build a streak. Everyone gets the same games each day, so you can challenge friends.
- Free, no sign-up
- New games every day
- Streaks and progress
- Works on phones
How it works: four quick games a day, picked from eight, for memory, focus, speed and logic. Each is worth up to 250 points, making a Brain score out of 1,000, and wrong answers cost a point in the timed games, so guessing doesn’t help. These are games for practice and fun, not a measure of IQ. Updated .
Today’s workout
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Today’s Brain score
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That’s your full result, free. Nothing to pay and nothing to sign up for.
Your last 14 days
Kept in this browser only. Days with a finished workout show a bar.
Make it a daily habit. Add Brain Training to your home screen and open it like an app.
How to do today’s brain workout
- Press Start today’s workout. Four short games follow one after another, with a quick explanation before each.
- Memory: sequence memory or number memory. Repeat squares that light up in order, or type back a number you saw for a few seconds. Each round adds one more; you have two lives.
- Focus: colour clash or odd one out. Say whether a word’s ink colour matches the word, or spot the one arrow pointing a different way, in 45 seconds.
- Speed: quick maths or symbol match. Answer sums, or say whether two symbols are exactly the same, as fast as you can in 45 seconds.
- Logic: number patterns or shape turn. Find the next number in a sequence, or tell a turned shape from its mirror image, in 60 seconds.
- Get your Brain score. Each game is worth up to 250 points, for a daily score out of 1,000. Come back tomorrow for new games and to build your streak.
Altto brain training: quick facts
A free daily brain workout of four short games, with a score out of 1,000, a streak and your last 14 days.
Updated
- Price
- Free, with no sign-up, no email and no paid version.
- Length
- About 4 minutes a day: four games of 45 to 60 seconds, plus memory, which lasts as long as you keep going.
- Games
- Eight games, two for each area: sequence and number memory, colour clash and odd one out (focus), quick maths and symbol match (speed), number patterns and shape turn (logic). Each day’s workout uses one from each area.
- Practice levels
- Practise any game at levels 1 to 5; the level rises when you do well. The daily workout is always the standard level, so everyone’s scores compare fairly.
- Score
- Up to 250 points a game, so up to 1,000 a day. Wrong answers take points off, so guessing doesn’t pay.
- Daily games
- Everyone gets the same puzzles each day, so friends can compare fairly. Practice rounds are random and don’t change your score.
- Progress
- Your streak, best scores and last 14 days are kept in your browser, on your device.
- Devices
- Phone, tablet or computer, with touch, mouse or keyboard.
- Privacy
- Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose to join the weekly leaderboard.
Does brain training work?
Brain training games reliably make you better at the games you practise: most people’s scores here climb noticeably over their first week. The evidence that this spreads to everyday thinking, school grades or IQ is much weaker. A large review of the research in 2016 found good evidence for improvement on the trained tasks, less for closely related tasks, and little for broader everyday abilities.
So treat it as a fun, quick way to wake your brain up, keep your mind active and track how sharp you feel from day to day. Sleep, exercise, learning new skills and staying social have stronger evidence behind them for long-term brain health.
What each game exercises
| Game | Area | What it exercises |
|---|---|---|
| Sequence memory | Memory | Short-term visual memory: holding an order of positions in mind. |
| Colour clash | Focus | Attention and self-control: ignoring what the word says to judge its colour (the Stroop effect). |
| Quick maths | Speed | Processing speed and mental arithmetic under time pressure. |
| Number patterns | Logic | Reasoning: spotting the rule behind a sequence, the same skill used in IQ test number questions. |
Sources
- Simons et al. (2016), “Do ‘Brain-Training’ Programs Work?” Psychological Science in the Public Interest: a review of the evidence for brain training.
- Stroop effect (Wikipedia): why naming an ink colour is harder when the word says a different colour.