Grandmother's Chest

Grandma's Chest: a fun game for training memory and attention

If you are looking for an interesting and useful exercise for training memory and attention, then the game "Grandma's Chest" may be an excellent choice for you. This game not only helps strengthen your memory and focus, but is also fun to play with friends or family.

The rules of the game are simple. One of the players begins to say: “I went to the attic and found...” and names any object that comes to his mind, be it a real object or a fictional one. For example, it could be “a purple dog with a yellow stripe,” “a submarine floating upside down,” “a gold pocket watch,” “three Martians,” or “a one-armed doll.”

Then the next player repeats the first player's phrase and adds their item: "I went into the attic and found... a purple dog with yellow stripes and a glass ball." And so on, each next player repeats all the items that were named earlier and adds his own. The goal of the game is to remember as many items as possible in sequence by the time the game ends.

There is also a variation of this game - "grandfather's story." Here players name items alphabetically. For example, the first player might begin the story by saying, “When Jane went into the attic, she found an antelope, and I found a butterfly.” Then the next player repeats the words "a" and "b" and adds the word "c". And so on, each player continues the story, repeating all the items mentioned earlier and adding his own.

If you don’t like ready-made game options, you can come up with your own memory training exercise, where objects are listed sequentially and a new one is added with each repetition. For example, you could start a story with the words: “I went to a strange zoo where I saw a tiny red elephant,” then add: “a snake wearing night slippers,” “a short giraffe,” etc. The main thing here is to call on your fantasy and imagination to help.

Another interesting game for training memory and attention is “T-words”. Players take turns choosing any letter and, looking out of a car window or walking down the street, look for objects starting with that letter. For example, if the letter "T" is selected, then you can name objects such as taxis, tractors, telephones, pipes, highways, trolleybuses, trams, etc. If you have exhausted all the words starting with that letter, you can move on to another letter. Schoolchildren may also notice words starting with “t” and not related to transport, for example, “dough”, “notebook”, “axe”, etc. If played in the car, older children can write down the words they name, and younger children can draw the objects they see.

The Grandma's Chest game and other similar exercises can be useful for people of all ages, especially those who are trying to keep their memory and attention in good shape. These games not only develop cognitive skills, but also improve your mood and help you spend time fun and usefully. So, don't be shy and join the game "Grandma's Chest" or come up with your own version of the game to train your memory and attention.