It’s O.K. to be smart! You’re getting smarter and so is BRAIN QUEST. With 50% new material, broader subject matter and more challenging questions, BRAIN QUEST is the up-to-date educational best-seller that quizzes you on the stuff you know — when you want to know it. 1500 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind. Ages 10 – 11.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great Conversation Starters
This and the rest of the series of similar products have been a great way for our clients to pass the time in our waiting room and interact in fun ways. Kids get to find out that their parents know more than what they thought. Kids get to show off what they learned.
5 Stars great
fun to use with the kids…and once in awhile there’s a question they beat me to the answer…okay my pride…maybe more than I’d like to admit too
The Brain Quest series are an excellent way to exchange learning data points
5 Stars Great at home and at school
This is a great resource at home or car trips, and I use it in my classroom activities as well. Great for time filler or “thinking” practice.
4 Stars Smooth sailing
Long car rides can be boring for anyone. Our eleven year-old used to have a very hard time with them. That is, until we discovered Brain Quest. We quiz him and he quizzes us. Along the way, he seems to be learning quite a few things. And the time flies.
Questions and difficulty level are age appropriate. Graphics on the card are repetitive and could be stronger. We also like the Smart Attack line. Better graphics and a bit more challenging. Animals and Original are our two favorites.
Overall, a great product!
4 Stars It’s great to be smart
The dumbing down of American kids is staunchly opposed by the BrainQuest series that stimulates kids in the back seat of the car or the airplane or anywhere they’d be otherwise bored to oblivion. The 1500 questions and answers (kind of like Trivial Pursuit crossed with a deck of cards) are easy to read, cross and wide range of subjects and challenge and stimulate readers of all ages (even grownups will love them.) Best of all, the inherent assumption is that your brain never tires of challenge! Too often on a trip, kids lapse into the “covered wagon syndrome” where they kind of stare blankly off into space, waiting for the trip to end. Brainquest cards (they come in a gazillion levels and varieties for all ages) really keep kids’ brains attached to their bodies. My only criticism is that often the questions are too hard for kids to read and they hold it up for me to read in the rear view mirror (I drive a lot) and if it were in mirror writing, I could read it. Oh well. Small criticism I suppose. It’s a great series. Keep a couple stashed under the car seat or in the glove compartment. The only thing even remotely as good as Brainquest is GeoSafari (which costs ten times as much and is the size of a laptop computer). Take time to try some of the Brainquest cards at home, then enjoy them in the car or on the plane. They also make great presents for teachers.
