"The results are clear,” said Dr Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the Medical Research Council. "Statistically, there are no significant differences between the improvements seen in participants who played our brain training games, and those who just went on the internet for the same length of time."

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Damn, wasted 30$ trying to get smarter... jk. this really isnt a shock to me, although i am a beast at sudoku now

If it's enjoyable and harms no one, there's nothing wrong with it.

There's a program on BBC1 right now about this very topic. How odd.

My sister has a few of these and I believe she is convinced they make her smarter... lol

I don't think smarter, but I do think it actually is good for the *ahem older folk, as working the brain at all I think helps keep it going better. Just a very unscientific thought of mine, from family experience.