New Year's solutions
Cheats and tips for your new favorite games
BrainAge (DS)
Of course, you're only cheating yourself if you cheat at Brain Age, but there's still a lot of fun to be had too...
Easter Eggs:
When the speed ranking screen comes up, tap the picture of the man walking or the rocket taking off and you'll hear a noise - including some music from Mario!
On the title screen, say "glasses, glasses" into the microphone and Dr. Kawashima will flap his glasses at you.
Cheats
If there is a question that may take you a few seconds to answer, close the DS, think it over, open the DS and write the answer - game time freezes when the DS is closed.
Select a save game slot and hold Select while choosing the Brain Age option to have the option of selecting the order of the Brain Age Check tests.
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Finally, the game can't see what you're doing, so you could just write down all the words in the memory game and then write them back in... but we'll leave that up to your conscience to decide whether you should try that or not!
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Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.