I just wanna see who has achieved this without using mods.  I am at 50% and I played for a day, but I'm not sure how much more dificult the games do get.  So just curious on peoples status in the game.

What do you mean using "mods"?  I've reached 100%.  I did abuse pause at times, but I could probably have hit 100% without them (albeit slower).  It's really just a steady progression, since it's pretty hard to lose percentage points.

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What do you mean using "mods"?  I've reached 100%.  I did abuse pause at times, but I could probably have hit 100% without them (albeit slower).  It's really just a steady progression, since it's pretty hard to lose percentage points.

To get the brain master achievement, do you have to do each one on easy medium and hard or can you just do one of them?

You have to get A+ on Easy, Medium, and Hard.  You don't have to do the Stress minigames, though.

im at 76% right now and havent used any mods or pause function......and i would say at best i am average at all categorys except math and the purple one.  it isnt hard it is just time consuming.

2 times i have managed to not gain any percentage.  but those were horrible games....i literally scored less than 10 in 2 categorys each time.

anyone can get to 100%, but i fear only a few select individuals can A+ in all mini games.

also can anyone shed some light on this.  when time is running out say on the count the matches game, i just guess a number because i dont have time to count them.  is it better to just let the time run out, or take a guess and usually get it wrong....but sometimes i get lucky and guess right

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 Printmatic wrote:

im at 76% right now and havent used any mods or pause function......and i would say at best i am average at all categorys except math and the purple one.  it isnt hard it is just time consuming.

2 times i have managed to not gain any percentage.  but those were horrible games....i literally scored less than 10 in 2 categorys each time.

anyone can get to 100%, but i fear only a few select individuals can A+ in all mini games.

also can anyone shed some light on this.  when time is running out say on the count the matches game, i just guess a number because i dont have time to count them.  is it better to just let the time run out, or take a guess and usually get it wrong....but sometimes i get lucky and guess right

I think that depends on HOW lucky you are, ive been lead to believe that a wrong answer will deduct from your final score

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Wrong answers deduct from your score, so it would be better to just let time run out if you were down to the last seconds.

Now thats interesting,will one loose more score for a not given answer than for a wrong answer?
lets say I answer 10 right of 11 or 10 right of 15.Which means I could just answer one and let the time roll out,will I have 100% because 1/1 or 50% because the game knows there were 2 questions?

You don't loose points at all for not answering a question whereas getting one wrong will set you back.

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Now thats interesting,will one loose more score for a not given answer than for a wrong answer?
lets say I answer 10 right of 11 or 10 right of 15.Which means I could just answer one and let the time roll out,will I have 100% because 1/1 or 50% because the game knows there were 2 questions?

If you only answer one question right and let time run out, you will get 100% accuracy, but you will have a lousy score! :)

Good point and I understand your question.  I would like to see the math involved in calculating your final score.  I'm sure there are some variables like number answered/number correct/time limit.

 ModernJuggler wrote:

Good point and I understand your question.  I would like to see the math involved in calculating your final score.  I'm sure there are some variables like number answered/number correct/time limit.

There are such vairables, the only problem is, they are so different based on which game you are playing. For instance, in the game mosaic (where you put the pictures together), I played on hard and only got like 6 or 7 puzzles solved, each of which was awarded as being slow. When I finished the game, I find it gave me well over the score needed for an A+.

 

On the other hand, you can play the bouncing balls game, and get 50 correct, without getting one wrong, and 30 of those can be fast, and you still won't get an A+.

 

As far as calculating the percentage in the daily test, the amount of percentage you go up is based on how well you do in each category, in particular, the category you are doing worst in. For example, you may go up 1% each play. If you go to your stats, take a look at the category you are doing worst in. I assure you if you do extremely well in that category next test (and consistant on the other categories), you should go up more than 1%. Pretty obvious, but it should give you an idea on which minigames to practice on.

so i am at 96% and at 100% in all categories except logic which is at 79%

that means the reason i havent gone up in 3 games is because i have to do well in the logic and the others really mean nothing at this point?

that sucks if so since impression is the only logic game i am good at and it only comes up 1 out of 5 games.

i did ok on logic and scored a all time high on math the other day and scored over 3000 for all 5 categories combined and still didnt go up any..... this is because logic was probably my worst score out of the 5?

thats crazy if so.........looks like ill have to abuse the pause function to get the last 4%

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Hey Print....  I too am stuck at 95% because my Logic tally is sitting at 80%.  What is this 'pause' or 'mod' thing that is posted from time to time in the message boards?

the pause thing really isnt as useful for logic games as others such as the cars game you can pause - then do math in your head then un pause see how many leave, pause again and do more math....and so on and so on.

 

im not going to lie, this is how i finished my logic.

 

i was at 95% for 5-6 games in a row and never moving up.  so i got a digital camera out, took videos of the screen and hurried up and paused it.  figured out the answer by watching the video on my camera, then unpaused it and repeated.  if you do this successful and get around 25 fast answers in one game, it should be enough to get you to 100% brain usage in one shot.

other than that you just have to be insanely smart to get them as quickly as they expect you to. i was not that smart so i became insanely creative and figured a way around it.  gotta love technology

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You say you're not smart enough to do it as quickly as they expect.  However I think the integration of intelligence and creativity.  Or in specificity, you getting the camera out to complete the task, reflects higher on you than completing the task using the traditional means.

I think one would derive more satisfaction from getting 100% or all A+ in a manner that others simply can't, like using one's brain.  I guess socio-economic status would prevent some from getting it with a camera, so there that for you, though.

i get satisfaction from getting the damn game complete....one way or another.  some times you got to try different solutions.

i used 2 controllers (one in each hand) for ace on aegis wing

i bought an expansion on crystal quest to kill 20 bad guys

i pointed my camera at a ceiling fan for the 20 min achievement on totem ball

and now i use a camera for A+'s in brain challenge.

 

creativity............macguyver taught me well....give me a straw and 2 paper clips and i will manage to get an achievement with it

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 Printmatic wrote:

i pointed my camera at a ceiling fan for the 20 min achievement on totem ball

You need to win an award for the most creative way to get an achievement! I love it!

I'll have to try out your camera trick sometime on Brain Challenge.

Without using cheats I reached 98% at most by now. I also haven't been able to get lower then 15o on the stress test. Maybe because I am always stressed.

I have got an A+ on all games including the stress tests. How do I unlock the fourth creative game? I haven't been able to do so.

Wow people have to "cheat" the games in Brain Challenge since they are not smart enough to do the challenges themself.  You can say "creative" but bottom line is, you CAN'T do it without using some sort of PAUSE or CAMERA to beat the puzzle/game.  So techinally you didn't get 100% Brain Usage or A+ in all mini games, the CAMERA or PAUSE or whatever cheats you had to do, techinally helped you, just the same as people using steriods or cameras in football games, its just plain cheating, plain pathetic, espically in a video game, where you don't even really get paid to do it.  But if you want to cheat, go ahead, I am not hear to tell you, that you have to stop.  You have the right to cheat, and I have the right to say, its probably one of the most pathetic thing, first off its a damn video game, why cheat?  Oh its time consuming and I don't have that kind of time, blah blah I heard all the excuses, an excuse is an excuse no matter how hard you try to convience yourself and everyone else.  But go ahead and keep on doing what you must and I will keep on saying, cheating in anything is just stupid, but video games, now thats just plain pathetic.

since this guy says it is cheating, then it must be cheating.  if it isnt against the terms of gamerscore cheating determined by xbox, then it ISNT cheating.  and nowhere in their terms does it say no cameras or pause buttons. 

we do it for the achievements.....if it wasnt an achievement, then we wouldnt do it.....so if you make an insane achievement, then im going to go to insane measures to unlock it.  even with the camera this game was too time consuming.  i have 30 hours in it and that is too much to ask, but i did it.  because if i start something , then i have to finish it.

 

so think what you want to think, but remember there are different types of people playing these games.  there are people like you who play for fun and a challenge.  then there are people like me who play for 1 thing.....12 out of 12 things checked off the "to do" list.  so think twice before you acuse somebody of cheating next time.

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 LegendRaySTR3 wrote:

Wow people have to "cheat" the games in Brain Challenge since they are not smart enough to do the challenges themself.  You can say "creative" but bottom line is, you CAN'T do it without using some sort of PAUSE or CAMERA to beat the puzzle/game.  So techinally you didn't get 100% Brain Usage or A+ in all mini games, the CAMERA or PAUSE or whatever cheats you had to do, techinally helped you, just the same as people using steriods or cameras in football games, its just plain cheating, plain pathetic, espically in a video game, where you don't even really get paid to do it.  But if you want to cheat, go ahead, I am not hear to tell you, that you have to stop.  You have the right to cheat, and I have the right to say, its probably one of the most pathetic thing, first off its a damn video game, why cheat?  Oh its time consuming and I don't have that kind of time, blah blah I heard all the excuses, an excuse is an excuse no matter how hard you try to convience yourself and everyone else.  But go ahead and keep on doing what you must and I will keep on saying, cheating in anything is just stupid, but video games, now thats just plain pathetic.

Cheating is doing something that is against the rules. Can you point out any place where it says that you are not allowed to use a camera or use the pause button? If the designers didn't want gamers to do that, they could have simply left out the pause feature.

How is it any different than the cheat codes that are available in some games? If I need them and they are available, I use them. Same goes for walk-throughs, which you can buy for many games the same day they come out.

Like you said, we aren't getting paid to play and we aren't professionals, so what difference does it make what methods each of us use to complete a game? I do it for my own personal entertainment and if I can find a short-cut to make something easier, I take advantage of that, as that is what I enjoy doing.

 

 Printmatic wrote:

i get satisfaction from getting the damn game complete....one way or another.  some times you got to try different solutions.

i used 2 controllers (one in each hand) for ace on aegis wing

i bought an expansion on crystal quest to kill 20 bad guys

i pointed my camera at a ceiling fan for the 20 min achievement on totem ball

and now i use a camera for A+'s in brain challenge.

 

creativity............macguyver taught me well....give me a straw and 2 paper clips and i will manage to get an achievement with it

Is that how people have Insane high scores on the leaderboards. No joke, i got this game the first day it came out and i was ranked number 1 in all of focus until my score was anhilated by an unbelievable score, i have a picture of it on my phone if you dont beleive me.

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nah - i believe you.....but that is exactly how your score was beaten on the leaderboards.  sorry if that isnt what you want to hear, but that is the answer.

it is basically like every other leaderboard there is though......you can tell where the legit scores start and the inflated ones end.

i would say that about 90% of the people who have 200/200 in this game are going to have the insanely high scores because nearly none of us were willing to actually play the game for hours to get the last few percentaga points.

developers should have seen this coming before it happened.  but they didnt, so the users took advantage of that.

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ive just started playing it again and my high score still stands at around 200, which im still happy with if a lot of people 'boosted'. I might try it though, im on 93% i think and im struggling to get higher but using a camera and pausing could help with everything, especially the cars, matchsticks and maths game. Im going to see if i cana get to 100 by doing that

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 LegendRaySTR3 wrote:

Wow people have to "cheat" the games in Brain Challenge since they are not smart enough to do the challenges themself.  You can say "creative" but bottom line is, you CAN'T do it without using some sort of PAUSE or CAMERA to beat the puzzle/game.  So techinally you didn't get 100% Brain Usage or A+ in all mini games, the CAMERA or PAUSE or whatever cheats you had to do, techinally helped you, just the same as people using steriods or cameras in football games, its just plain cheating, plain pathetic, espically in a video game, where you don't even really get paid to do it.  But if you want to cheat, go ahead, I am not hear to tell you, that you have to stop.  You have the right to cheat, and I have the right to say, its probably one of the most pathetic thing, first off its a damn video game, why cheat?  Oh its time consuming and I don't have that kind of time, blah blah I heard all the excuses, an excuse is an excuse no matter how hard you try to convience yourself and everyone else.  But go ahead and keep on doing what you must and I will keep on saying, cheating in anything is just stupid, but video games, now thats just plain pathetic.

You cant say you've NEVER boosted online with a friend for an easy 100 points in half an hour, with a score like that mate...

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 Printmatic wrote:

i............macguyver taught me well....give me a straw and 2 paper clips and i will manage to get an achievement with it

That isnt true,you would also need a xbox360. :)

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i didn't even think about the pause button and how that would give you an advantage. wow people will find anything they can to get around just playing the game the right way.