by Marky Mark on December 29th, 2009

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Do you think card games like Freecell and Solitaire can improve your mental ability in general?

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by SpaghettiHoop on December 29th, 2009

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I would say that Solitaire teaches patience and Freecell basic strategy. So, on some level I guess they do affect mental ability...

*waves* Toodles :)
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- *waves back* Thanx. (Who's Toodles?) ;-)
  
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  by Marky Mark on December 29th, 2009
- *laughs* No worries.. I was just trying to bring back a totally awesome farewell response, but it appears I have failed *melodramatic sigh* Oh, and apparently, Toodles was the name of a female cat in Tom and Jerry.. go figure *shrugs* (I was curious to whether anyone had ever had Toodles as a name.. so I checked *sheepish*)
  
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  by SpaghettiHoop on December 29th, 2009
- OK now I get it. Of course, "Toodle-ooo!". I have a an uncle that answers the phone with "Yodeledle-eeeee!!" ;-)
  
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  by Marky Mark on December 29th, 2009
- Your uncle is clearly awesome *laughs* Makes me wonder if he experimented with different types of greetings before finding one that felt right. Sadly, as far as I know, none of my uncles have interesting greetings.. I do have a very very distant relative who always used to start sneezing when she answered the phone. My childlish mind convinced me that was 'cause she was once hypnotised by someone who cursed her with that response.. but I only met her once and it was probably something uninteresting like dust allergies. (No offence to anyone with dust allergies! *sheepish*)
  
  Are you an avid player of Freecell and Solitaire then? :)
  
  (Sorry to those who weren't expecting unrelated comments, but I'm new here and I have an affinity for tangents)
  
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  by SpaghettiHoop on December 29th, 2009
- A few years ago I was HOOKED on Freecell for a while. Yesterday I was showing my sons - 14 and 6 - how to play Solitaire...so it just got me wondering whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. Now that I thought of it I agree Freecell teaches you to think a few steps ahead (strategy) and Solitaire patience yes but also probably attention to detail, recognizing possibilities, learning to win within the rules and probably some more good stuff ...it's probably more educational than their Playstation/XBox wrestling that they are crazy about!! They know all the wrestlers names and moves but thats not going to help them much in life is it?!;-)
  
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by SaneStarKiller on December 29th, 2009
i dont know about those two, they usually make me sit by the computer all day.. but Sudoku is awesome - it makes you think logically and you see numbers everywhere.. and you even have nightmares about it, but still, it rocks
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- True. At one stage I was so addicted to Sudoku...I had to break it off cold-turkey! Thanx. ;-)
  
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  by Marky Mark on December 29th, 2009
- well, i have a story for that.. i bought this sudoku book, like 500 puzzle thing and well, is there a jollier way to go to the toilet than with your sudoku?
  so i started filling them out.. and i just got into it so much, i forgot where i was.. i sat there for 2 hours at least.. and when i at last put it down and got up, i went down straight away.. my legs had fallen asleep.. that must have been the most terrifying moment of my life.. and thats when i laid off on sudoku and started with tetris
  
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  by SaneStarKiller on December 29th, 2009
- Hahaa! No sh*t! :-D Tetris is another one!
  
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  by Marky Mark on December 29th, 2009
- tetris made my thumbs muscly :P
  
  well, not really.. but wouldnt it be cool!?
  
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by idalogged on December 29th, 2009
I'd like to think so... I believe these games help us to see patterns, and being aware of patterns is a great way to change patterns, if so desired.
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by TWIST on December 29th, 2009
Yup. Use it or lose it - helps with memory and other stuff.
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by iwnit on December 29th, 2009
Yes.
However, it would be better to do also other things, or else, you would only train and develop specific skills.
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