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A flowering plant in a terracotta pot on a sunny windowsill beside a green watering can and a stack of books, with green hills outside

Mind Sprout

Brain teasers and memory

By Pooja · 158 plays

Three short brain drills on a sunny windowsill. Finish the workout and water your potted plant, then keep going in free play.

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About the game

My class does a five-minute warm-up before maths, and this started as a way to make it less of a chore. Three short drills, each under a minute, then everyone gets to water the plant. The workout spreads across attention, speed, memory, maths and flexibility. There are eight drills: Colour clash, Quick sums, Number trail, Glow grid, Arrow focus, Echo symbols, Shape switch and Bigger bag. Each one adapts as you play, getting harder after right answers and easing off after a mistake, so it settles where you get about four in five right. Finish the workout and water your plant: it grows new leaves, then buds, flowers and branches. Beat your personal bests, follow your scores on the Progress page, and unlock a new drill for free play with every workout. The drills are games, not tests. They show how you're doing in these drills and nothing more.

How to play

Press Play to start today's workout. The first time you meet a drill, a short practice shows you how it works; you can skip it. Tap or click the answers. Keyboard: number keys for Colour clash, type answers for Quick sums and Number trail, the letter on each cell for Glow grid, and arrow keys for the other drills. Space or Enter skips the countdown, and Escape pauses. After the third drill, water your plant.

Devices
desktop, mobile, tablet
Orientation
any

Screenshots

Home on day 20 just after watering: the plant has grown tall with buds and flowers, today's three drills are ticked off and the calendar shows 20 days in a rowBigger bag: two coin bags, one holding 2, 2 and 5 and the other 1 and 1, under Tap the bag with the bigger totalShape switch: a ring in a blue striped frame labelled Shape, with Round and Angular buttons and Round marked rightWorkout complete card: 286 points and a new personal best, 12 of 14 right, a level up, and a Water your plant buttonProgress page after 20 workouts: a five-skill chart, streak totals and score sparklines for all eight drillsColour clash on a phone in portrait after the rule change: the word GREEN in red ink with a Tap the word label above four colour buttons

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