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This is an archive article published on April 3, 2013

Take an ‘appy’ phone break to rejuvenate your brain!

Take a break and explore hundreds of apps available on your PCs and smartphones.

Worried that your notes are becoming an extension of your arm? Brain dead with all the reading you have been doing? Seeing alphabets and equations floating in front of your eyes? This is quite possible if you belong to the millions comprising the student population of the country either in the throes of prepping for their exams or bang in the middle of it.

So do what the good doc advises – take a break. Rejuvenate your brain and come back refreshed. And bless the developers for the hundreds of apps available on your PCs and smartphones. Relax,sitting right where you are or take a walk with your smartphone. We’ve saved you the trouble of having to sift through endless apps and chosen some options that will definitely pep you up and keep your brain alive and kicking.

Here’s our selection for you:

If figures are your thing,then go for Sudoku Wave. A little bit of logic and deduction and before you know those empty squares are all filled out.

Racy and you know it? Play Glide and Ride — land on the travelling vehicle’s roof in order to reach your destination. Create new profiles and select new avatars. New cars and backgrounds are the surprise elements in the game. Unlock new levels by achieving targets of the challenged levels. Card-lovers of the world unite as Black Jack draws them together in this version of the world’s most popular casino banking game.

Enjoy putting the pieces of a puzzle together? Then Doodle Dude is the app for you. A challenging puzzle game that you play as a stick man to try and reach the doors in all the 15 levels,it takes your brain for a serious spin with its awesome doodle style and entertaining sounds.

It challenges your brain cells and gets you going. The word could go left,right,up,down,or at a 45 degree angle or then a combination of them all. It’s a two-minute long word tournament where you compete in real-time,on the same board,against everyone else currently playing. Each board is unique and alternating rounds offer challenges such as two- and three-letter tiles and theme puzzles. You can choose to go for the bonus points,try to find the most words possible or earn scoring bonuses by finding longer words.

Brain needs a buzz? Try some simple,enjoyable exercises with Brain Challenge™.,Brain Challenge is your personal coach and an entertaining,easy solution for keeping your brain alert. Another in the same category is Brain App which uses simple rapid-fire exercises to help keep your mind sharp by stimulating increased blood flow in key areas of the brain — improving neural connections which allow for faster responses and increased memory recollection ability.

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Become a real bowling master,get the right stance,calculate the best hit and shoot. Start scoring points and up your grey scales as well.

Want to be one up on your friends and glow with your win? Get a game that helps in word building,triple score seeking,chat bubble sending goodness — Words With Friends. Its turn-based design lets you play up to 20 games simultaneously. So get out there and beat the word out of them.

If you just want to zone out,Relaxify is a must have,must play app for you — a mesmerising particle simulator lets you tune out your worries,your anxieties,and all that is annoying around you. It supports four-finger multi-tap controls,and it allows you to just flick the screen to throw the particles around and arrange them just the way you like.

And last but not the least,get Logic Games,a repository of 77 different types of puzzle games that tease your brain cells into action and get your neural responses up and running.

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Here’s to an ‘appy’ break that makes you feel more zingy and charged up! All apps are available on Windows Phone 8.

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