Brain⚡Blitz
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Your brain vs. the clock

60 seconds. One surprise challenge. How good is your brain under pressure?

60 seconds Surprise category Speak or type Beat your friends
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Hit play. No peeking.

The category stays secret until the countdown hits zero. No preparing, no warming up. That's the game.

2

Shout it out for 60 seconds

Name as many as you can, out loud or by typing. We count the unique ones and catch your repeats.

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Get your score. Start a fight.

Send your score card to a friend and dare them to beat it. Warning: it looks easier than it is.

The science bit

That "name as many as you can in one minute" format isn't something we made up. Researchers use tasks like naming as many animals as possible in one minute to study verbal fluency and semantic memory, and tasks like these can contribute to the assessment of cognitive function, including during evaluations for dementia.

Brain Blitz is a game built on that idea, made for fun and awareness. Playing it is a great excuse to think about brain health, and to get the whole family playing along.

Brain Blitz is for fun and awareness. It is not a validated dementia screening test, and your score cannot diagnose or rule out dementia. If you ever have concerns about your memory or thinking, the right move is a conversation with a clinician.

  • Henry, J. D., Crawford, J. R., & Phillips, L. H. (2004). Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 42(9), 1212–1222.
  • Alzheimer's Association — information on cognitive assessment and brain health: alz.org
Privacy, briefly

No account. No email. No name. Brain Blitz never asks who you are, and nothing you say or type during a game is stored or sent to us. Your answers exist only on this screen, only while you play.

One honest note about voice mode: speech recognition is provided by your browser, and on some browsers (for example Chrome) your audio is processed by the browser maker's speech service to turn it into text. If you'd rather keep everything on your device, use typing mode. It works just as well.

We count only anonymous, on-device tallies for this session (visits, rounds started, rounds finished, shares) to understand whether the game is fun. They never leave this browser and are never used to guess anything about your health. This session so far: 1 visit.

Brain Blitz — a 60-second game for fun and brain-health awareness.
Not a medical test. Scores are for bragging rights only.

The category is a surprise

Ready when
you are

When you hit start: 3, 2, 1… the category appears and the clock starts. Name as many as you can, out loud or by typing.

Voice mode listens and writes down what you say. It can mishear words — you'll get a chance to fix mistakes before you see your score.

Challenged? Go head-to-head

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Get ready…

Name as many as you can
Animals
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unique
answers
Your answers will land here. Shout the first one!
Time's up

Quick check before your score

Speech can mishear, and that's on the microphone, not on you. Tap × to remove anything that isn't right, and add anything the mic missed.

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Unique answers
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Repeats caught
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Did you know?

Researchers use tasks like naming as many animals as possible in one minute to study verbal fluency and semantic memory. These tasks can contribute to the assessment of cognitive function, including during evaluations for dementia.

Inspired by real research tasks: Animals, Fruits & Vegetables, and words beginning with F, A, or S — the letters of the FAS test (the Controlled Oral Word Association Test) used in cognitive research.

Just for fun — not research tasks: Foods, Countries, and Things in a Home. They're game categories we added purely for variety, with no published research norms behind them.

One score-keeping rule: scores are not comparable across categories — the category changes how many answers are possible. A fair challenge is always the same category against the same category.

This game is for fun and awareness. It is not a validated dementia screening test. Your score cannot diagnose or rule out dementia.

Someone you love might find this interesting, too. Invite a parent or grandparent to play along. It's a genuinely fun 60 seconds, and a pretty good conversation starter about looking after our brains.

  • Henry, J. D., Crawford, J. R., & Phillips, L. H. (2004). Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 42(9), 1212–1222.
  • Alzheimer's Association: alz.org