I, Sergei Rostovtsev, who invented this game, myself suffered for a long time with my memory, or rather with the difficulties of remembering.
The phone number was not written down, was forgotten in a minute, but written down without an exact indication of the name, and found the next day, could not be contacted in any way with the name of the one who gave it to me and could be freely thrown away.
The study was not given at all. What I read for my own interest, I still somehow remembered, but what I had to learn, I could read a thousand times and without any result.
As a rule, I recalled the meetings that were assigned to me after they were over. It was very hard to live like this. I remembered my childhood well and could not remember any simple word that I needed in a conversation. I had to get out and replace it with a similar one, which was still in my memory. Due to the lack of accuracy of speech, I began to be considered …
In general, let’s not talk about sad things, since I hope that you do not have such problems yet and in general will never be now.
In order to overcome my difficulties, I decided to make every effort to somehow cope with them.
I started by looking for pills. I drank herbs and supplements. Maybe they helped someone, but I did not feel it. Finally I got lucky. My friend suggested me a wonderful medicine.
I repeated the name several times, there was nothing to write down, and went to the pharmacy.
Of course, in the pharmacy, I even had no idea how the name of the remedy for sclerosis sounds, disappeared.
The next day, having met a friend, I wrote down this name. But when I arrived at the pharmacy, I found in my pocket a couple of dozen notes with various names, and I could no longer choose the right one.
The next day, I wrote the name right on my arm and received the coveted drug at the pharmacy.
I tried it only once, and for the rest of my life, I remembered its name without any notes. Remembered in order not to accidentally try again. Why? Because two or three hours after a tablespoon of the drug (which I had to drink for several months three times a day), I could only spit and rinse my mouth. I won’t tell you the name, I’m not a sadist, but they were esters of used cottonseed oil.
But what about problems?
Here I was helped by one guy who is obsessed with intelligence and has a wonderful memory.
He trained his memory.
In one film, he saw how the boy memorized the order of the items lying on the table, and this later helped to expose the spy and save the submarine.
I also began to do these exercises, but I noticed that subconsciously I began to lay out objects in the same order.
Then I took a large box and two sets of identical coins: a kopeck, three kopecks, a nickel, a dime, and so on. I threw one set of coins into the box and memorized how the coins fell, and then I closed it and tried to repeat the combination in the box on the lid.
It was not easy to assess how this affects memory right away, but after a while I noticed that a daily 15-minute workout with twelve coins gives its results. I began to remember well. That is, I would like it better (there is no limit to perfection), but I have already begun to be considered by my comrades as a warehouse of information.
The fact is that I began to remember even what I once unsuccessfully tried to learn.
It popped up and never left.
At any moment, as from a shelf, I got the opportunity to get this knowledge.
But still, the coins had a lot of shortcomings. They moved. Having laid them down, I had to evaluate the correctness of my repetition. This was also very subjective.
I am used to these exercises. Every day, like exercising, 15 minutes, I quit — I remembered it, making an effort. I laid it out as I remembered, compared. Right, wrong, tomorrow will be better.
Finally, a few years ago, namely in 1998, I met a wonderful programmer, Vadim Anatolyevich Tkachenko. Together with him, we created a game that completely replaced my 12 coins and completely avoided all their shortcomings.
The main thing is not to be afraid to lose.
Tomorrow will be better!
And the game that we created will tell you how much you have progressed in a week, in six months, in a year. That is, by playing this game, you have a real mechanism to evaluate the results of its impact.
Game «143»
It helps a lot. When you decide to lose weight, you need a scale so that you know if you are moving in the right direction.
Our game will «weigh» your memory. Even when you decide to use some other technique. Our game as a test will let you know its effectiveness. Otherwise, eating supplements and other nonsense, you will determine whether it helps you solve memory problems or only helps to empty your wallet.
Just for people — our game is completely free.
Play for health. And in this phrase, the words «to health» have a literal meaning. Since memory is needed not only for remembering phone numbers. Your whole body will begin to work more smoothly. A trained brain more accurately organizes the work of all the processes and systems of your body.
We sincerely, and completely disinterestedly, wish you good health and long life without any signs of sclerosis and senile brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Our benefit, and it is not at all small, is in healthy, cheerful people around us.