Description

21 Flush is brain fitness and cognitive skills development game that actually entertains, educates, and progressively challenges you in the most captivating manner… whether you’re playing against the computer or playing a competitive game with your friends.

You need cognitive skills for success in life… but no one teaches them in college. Either you’re born with them or you develop as you grow. By stimulating brain with several simultaneous activities at any age; children as well as adults can increase their attention span, increase awareness to their surroundings, sharpen their memory, process information quickly, recall and organize their thoughts in positive and productive manner… all the while playing a competitive game─ with a goal of winning and having fun.

The game is played with a deck of computer generated standard playing cards and a cognitions game board.
Number of Players: One plays against the computer to develop cognitive skills… Two play against each other to challenge and to win.
Computer Deals: Random playing cards from deck.
Game Start: First name player can start by picking and placing the playing card in the open 3×3 grid.
Score: Running score is updated each time a player hits Ranking of three cards in a row on the grid. Points earned differ based on ranking of three cards in a row
Card Ranking: Possible ranking of three cards in a row, from high to low, is as follows…

1. Trio – three cards of the same rank. Three aces are the best trio and three twos are the lowest.

2. Straight Run – three consecutive cards of the same suit. Ace can be used in the run A-2-3, which is the highest straight run. Next come A-K-Q and so on down to 4-3-2, which is the lowest.

3. Normal Run – three consecutive cards, not all of the same suit. A-2-3 is the best normal run, then A-K-Q and so on down to 4-3-2.

4. Color – any three cards of the same suit. When comparing two colors, compare the highest cards. Thus the highest color is A-K-J and the lowest is 5-3-2.

5. Pair – two cards of the same rank. Between two such hands, compare the pair first, then the odd card if these are equal. The highest pair hand is therefore A-A-K and the lowest is 2-2-3.

6. Any hand of a higher type beats any hand of a lower type – for example the lowest Normal Run 4-3-2 beats the best Color A-K-J.
21 Flush game is designed in the labs… but proven in real life to engage, exercise, nurture, and develop a range of 21 cognitive skills from working memory to fluid intelligence. In a game between an adult and a youth, the adult can take the fun opportunity to teach and mentor on the basis of shared interests and nurture the youth’s memory skills, math skills, logical thinking and reasoning skills, decision making skills, risk taking and risk aversion skills, and social skills such as turn taking, graceful winning [or loosing] and being patient with others.

The game structure and the rules act as brain fitness and cognitive development program; where sequences of challenges test a range of cognitive strengths and weaknesses of the players. The level of challenges and intensity increase as the game progresses; whereby the ability of the mind to remember, assimilate and process information quickly and accurately is enhanced. In a game of ‘21 Flush’, it starts simply with one grid and quickly grows to 22 grids; thereby dynamically increasing the scope of the games by 21 grids and its complexity by 21 folds.

The need for dynamic integration of multiple cognitive skills, makes cognitions bridge games fun to play and more beneficial than the so called brain-training computer games. These brain-training computer games may make the computer smarter but not the user; because the computer is acting as a “brain crutch”. It’s like revving your car engine in ‘Neutral’… while sitting in your driveway, going nowhere.