DS Fanswag: Brain builder blowout

by David Hinkle on Oct 10th 2007 9:50AM

Are you feeling mentally down? Does calculating the cost of your groceries at your local supermarket taking you longer than usual? Well, we might just have something that can help you get mentally fit again. Whether you're 88 or 18 (sorry, if you're under 18 years of age or live outside the United States, you are not eligible), everyone can always use some extra mental exercises to help them get fit again.

What will you win? Well, that's simple. One grand prize winner will receive a copy of Brain Age 2 (valued at $20), Picross DS (valued at $20) and Brain Buster Puzzle Pak (valued at $20). With all those puzzle titles, you should be as mentally fit as a young Albert Einstein.

So, do your brain a favor and make a comment below. All we're asking is that you tell us the last time you were feeling mentally sluggish. Hey, we're all friends here, no need to feel embarrassed when you had some difficulty adding and subtracting with The Count.

Before you do that, though, make sure that you read the official rules before entering. The contest will be open from Wednesday October 10th, 2007 9:45am EST until Sunday October 14th, 2007 11:59PM EST.

Tags: contest, fanswag, giveaway, jam-sessions, ubisoft

Reader Comments (218)

Mentally sluggish? That would be today, amigos. I was up until 4am last night reading (not on purpose!) and so I'm pretty much useless here at work for the next couple hours.

I'm in my Computer Science class right now, and I feel pretty darn sluggish. I haven't had a productive thought for pretty much the whole day. :P I really wish I had my DS right now to erm-- "develop Java" on. :)

I was feeling sluggish yesterday because I only got 5 hours of sleep. I had to drive my girlfriend home and she lives a state away so I had that yellow vitamin water drink and a caffeine pill. I got her home and got home alright but when I got home I couldn't sleep 'cause of all the caffeine. So I just played guitar and surfed the net until 3am when I finally passed out.

Last time i felt mentally sluggish would be when i last played my brother in SSBM.

Just a few minutes ago. It was the whole groggy wake-up and take-into-account-where-the-heck-am-I mental grogginess though.

I tried the demo of BA2; that made me feel challenged. Seriously, keeping track of wether you should win or lose at Rock / Paper / Scissors is hard, and forces you to create new things such as 'Rocksors' and 'Paprock'.

As with the other posters, just today! A friend forwarded on a silly "do you see the rotating figure circling clockwise or counterclockwise" image, where clockwise is supposed to mean that you're a right-brain person. Since I'm a computer programmer, it'd be nice to switch my left brain on!

Mentally sluggish? I think I'm always mentally sluggish when I'm at work. >:-)

Man, I'm sluggish every day. :D

I was sluggish today when I woke up at 6am because of dogs barking.

When was I last feeling mentally sluggish? I'm typing this in my sleep!

Mmm...any time I have to compute a tip...I make my wife do it... :)
-Z

Got a nasty cold so I've been feeling mentally (and physically) sluggish for a few days now...

I'm feeling sluggish RIGHT NOW. Need coffee.

God, the slugs here in Central Ohio are HUGE! Oh wait, what?

The last time I was mentally sluggish is when I ran for Miss Teen USA and said "I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh...people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and...I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children." Brain Age 2 could help me....but I doubt it.

I got my coffee... I hate morning time...
BUT I'm loving the contests!

I'm not mentally sluggish, but my alter-ego is.

Sluggish? Not so much now, but the last time the slugs got me was probably a few weeks ago, after putting in some massive overtime at work.

fellin pretty mentally sluggish right now.

Does now count?

I am mentally sluggish right now trying to think of the last time I felt mentally sluggish.

Last time I felt sluggish? That was the other day when I did the "all you can eat pasta bowl" for lunch. Baaaaaad idea!

It started at about 25.

I love Brain Age 1....crossing my fingers...

Monday night... but I was pretty drunk

I feel sluggish, tired AND stupid.

I was feeling mentally sluggish yesterday, after coming off a three day weekend. Some Sudoku in Brain Age 2 might be the answer to perk up the mind!

yeah, I'm at work and signing up for a contest...I'm pretty sure mentally sluggish would be a polite way of saying I'm feeling dumb today ;)

Felt mentally sluggish yesterday midday, especially, when I tried to do my calculus homework.

I'm feeling mentally sluggish right now, too. Time to study for a Calculus II exam - and I lost my book! Oh, boy.

Last time I felt mentally sluggish would be when I saw the updates for Sonic in SSBB! ;)

Sluggish brain? After a day of staring at excel spreadsheets, building boxes, and dealing with micro management my brain is pretty worn. Also playing DS till 2am might have a minute influence on this problem but nothing is yet scientifically proven on that one!

My toddler woke me up early this morning, saying "ga" and grabbing my face. I was soooo sleep deprived from taking care of him last night (he kept waking up hungry!) I couldn't believe he was wide awake at 7:00 a.m.! Needless to say, it took my brain until after breakfast to fully kick in :)

i was sluggish today in the morning cause i had to go to class 5 minutes after waking up and it was math class so for like the first hour, i just sat there until i got a hold of my surroundings

The last time I felt sluggish was probably yesterday morning, in my Spanish class, when my professor got mad that I kept accidentally answering in French. :[

Mentally sluggish?! Always!

this morning... ugh. every morning.

Last time I felt mentally sluggish was the other day...I stayed up waaay to late the night before and found myself daydreaming all day long not able to focus on a single thing at work. Ugh.

2 days ago...10/8
I was in a store trying to figure out which package of frozen veggies I should by, trying to compute price per ounce of different sizes

I even said "!@#$ I need to get back to doing Brain Age!"

Monday. Our 17 month old had been sick since Thursday and sleep apparently wasn't one of things he felt like doing. He kept waking up every 15 minutes or so. My daughter spent the night with my parents Saturday but came home Sunday with a case of the up chucking. Yay. Was too tired Monday to think. Thinking would hurt.

Just mentally sluggish at work.

Like so many others, right now I'm in my 300-level software engineering class, and feeling pretty sluggish because it's at freaking 8 in the morning. I waited several semesters just to see if it would be offered at a different time, but no... =_=

At least Picross DS would give me something to get my brain in gear on the bus :D

I felt kinda sluggish during the last contest... I thought, "What if I just spammed the same message over and over again in order to win".

Then I thought, "No... that must be against the rules... otherwise it just wouldn't be fair".

Huh... Looks like I was just dumb.

I should get some training in.

if i'm not playing wii sports, you might not realize i'm awake.

Whoooooo Monkey!

Mentally sluggish? Just because they can't find shells and upgrade to snails doesn't mean there's something wrong with their brains!

This entire morning. Including my commute, and early morning on I-95 in a semi-metropolitan area is a terrible place to flake out.

Mentally sluggish and groggy are two different things. I'm groggy right now, that's for sure. But being wide awake didn't help me yesterday, when I locked my reset someone's voice mail password here at work for them, then called and left them a voice message telling them it had been changed.
:)

Last week I was feeling mentally sluggish after spending 5 hours just trying to beat death/dracula/super-demon on Castlevania Portrait of Ruin... I suck at life.

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