Research from countless sources over the past few years has verified something that we should have known all along: the brain is like a muscle. Use it or lose it.

Studies have shown that challenging your mental abilities every day not only improves your mental function, but also protects you from various nerve conditions: including memory loss associated with aging and even Alzheimer's or dementia.
Mental exercises can not only make you live longer, but make sure you remain healthy throughout your old age. Doing regular mental exercise is a fun, easy way to ensure your own health.

As if you needed a new reason to play online Sudoku!

What are you going to do to prepare for a trivia?

Just like training for a marathon, your brain needs exercise. And lots of it!

Did you expect to just enter a quiz and win it… just like that? I certainly hope not!

Think back to school, when you had a big test coming up…
Yup, you guessed it!

Study, study, and then study some more, to win games!

If you didn’t study before a test, chances are you would fail miserably. If you don’t study before a quiz, how do you expect to keep up with other players?

But how do you study for a trivia game if you don’t know the questions yet? Obviously, you are a smart person (after all, you are reading this) and you are smart enough to admit that you could use a few pointers.

Taking trivia and quizzes is more than a great way to occupy your time; it is also a way to exercise your mind. For the same reason that Sunday mornings are spent filling in a Sudoku puzzle or cross word puzzle out of the newspaper, it is possible that taking a trivia or a quiz might even enhance your creativity, increase energy, and prevent depression.

According to Wikipedia, on 6th april 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz), a quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.

If you have an e-mail account, chances are you’ve seen a social network survey or just fun survey. If you have a social network account (Myspace or Facebook) then you have definitely seen, and possibly filled out, a social network survey.

Be warned that these surveys are a dangerous addiction. You may learn a thing or two about your friends, and even about yourself, by answering challenging quiz questions. But when you find yourself filling out fun surveys on a daily basis, answering questions that you have already answered repeatedly (because many of the questions can be very much alike), then you are suffering an addiction. If you do, you may find some cool links in our quiz links section.

• Have you ever heard a sports player explain why he didn’t win? “I didn’t have the legs today”… “There was too much (or too little) wind out there”…

Why not borrow a few of these ready-to-use excuses that you can rely on, when (or should I say if) you get a bad score at a quiz or trivia?

Trivia games are, quite possibly, the best form of board game on the market. If you like to have a good time and play games (who doesn’t?) that are challenging and require you to use your noggin, then you already know how great trivia board games.

Other “thinking games” such as chess are more challenging, and less fun while trivia board games are perfect for parties or an after dinner activity with friends and family.

There are many different versions of trivia board games out there—for a reason—so let’s explore some of the more popular trivia board games. We’ll begin with the first board game that comes to mind when you put “trivia” with “board game”…