3 Games to Get Your Attention

101 Way to Improve Your Memory, Reader's Digest UKUpdated: Mar. 20, 2019

Are you worried about having a poor memory? Being forgetful is often the result of us failing to pay attention. The good news is that it can be improved with a bit of practice. Try these tests that will get your attention on the road to a better memory.

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Visual concentration is one of the easiest ways to improve your memory.

Look at these completed lines of geometric shapes for a minute and then cover them. Fill in the missing shapes in them line below.

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Ready to try it again?

Look at these completed lines of geometric shapes for a minute and then cover them. Fill in the missing shapes in them line below.

You probably found it easier the second time around. Practice does make perfect!

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Look at the fruits below for 30 seconds and then cover them.

Which of the eight fruits is the odd one out?

Click on Next to find the answer.

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Answers

Answer: The cherries are the only fruit with a single seed.

Strengthening your powers of concentration helps to you pay attention!

Click on Next to try another game.

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Happy Endings

Find 10 words ending -AVE that correspond to the clues given in the chart below (one letter per dash). Time yourself to see how quickly you complete the list.

Conduct yourself well	_ _ _AVE
Courageous	_ _AVE
Musical interval of 8 notes	_ _ _ AVE
Curves that curves inwards	_ _ _ _AVE
An assembly of cardinals	_ _ _ _ _ AVE
Smooth and sophisticated	_ _ AVE
To interlace	_ _ AVE
To depart	_ _ AVE
Final resting place	_ _ AVE
To inscribe	_ _ _ _ AV

Click on Next to find the answer.

BEHave

BRave

OCTave

CONCave

CONCLave

SUave

WEave

LEave

GRave

ENGRave

Originally Published: January 25, 2011