Gameloft’s Brain Challenge ($5) is the iPod Games equivalent of Brain Age, and works on the fifth-generation iPod, iPod nano, and iPod classic.

Brain Challenge is as close to Brain Age as the iPod models can get: you’re even walked through the mind games by an on-screen coach who peppers you with brain-related trivia questions and factoids in-between challenges.


Here, the coach’s either an attractive male or female—your choice—rather than a bespectacled Japanese floating head.

Other than one difference—the 3-2-1 countdown before each challenge moves in 3-D on the iPod, and uses a calendar-style flipping timer on the nano and classic—the game looks and feels the same on each platform, presenting you with a series of brief mind games that you’re challenged to complete as quickly as possible.