How each game is made and tested, how the text on every page is written and sourced, and how we correct mistakes
This page explains how the games and pages on Mind Skills Arcade are made, so you can judge how much to trust them. It applies to everything published by DixonAppStudio LLC on this site.
Most games start from a task with a track record in cognitive psychology — the Stroop test, digit span, the Corsi block-tapping task, n-back, go/no-go, visual search, mental rotation — or from a classic puzzle such as Lights Out or Bulls and Cows. We rebuild it for a phone: large tap targets, no horizontal scrolling, a round that fits in about two minutes, and feedback on every answer.
Every game is written and tested in-house. Before release it is played on a narrow phone screen and on a desktop, with keyboard controls where they make sense and sound that only starts after you tap. Scores, best results and settings are saved in your browser, never on an account.
Advertising is kept out of play. The ad code may only show an ad after a round has finished and you choose to play again, or when you opt in to a rewarded ad; a round is never interrupted. An automated test drives the ad integration through a real browser to check exactly that.
“How to play” and “How scoring works” are written from the game’s own code, so they describe what the game actually does — the number of rounds, the timing, how points are awarded and what ends a run. When the code changes, the text changes in the same release.
“The research behind it” summarises what published studies say about the task, and lists them as sources with a DOI or stable link. We prefer original studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses over news coverage, and we say plainly when a popular claim is contested or has failed to replicate.
We do not invent statistics, testimonials or ratings. If we cannot trace a figure to a source, it does not go on the page.
Long-form guides follow the same sourcing rule. Maths pages are generated from the arithmetic itself, so an answer cannot drift from the numbers, and the explanatory notes are written by hand.
Buying guides recommend products for a stated reason and mark every affiliate link. No brand can pay for a place in a guide, and we do not publish sponsored posts or sell links. Guest articles are edited to the same standard.
We do not recommend supplements or other health products. Nothing on the site is medical advice, and no game is a diagnostic test.
A page exists only if it gives a reader something no other page on the site does. In September 2026 we removed 277 pages that did not meet that bar — generated maths pages that differed only in their numbers, country landing pages that repeated the home page, and product round-ups without enough original substance — and redirected each to the page that now answers it better.
We use AI tools to help draft text, review code and check pages for errors. Nothing is published on the strength of a tool alone: factual statements must trace to the game’s code or to a cited source, and automated checks run on every build to catch thin, duplicated or broken pages before they go live.
If you spot an error, email support@mindskillsarcade.com with the page and, if possible, a source. We review every report; when a page is corrected, its updated date changes. Substantive corrections to research summaries are noted on the page.
The most-visited pages are reviewed regularly against their games and sources, and pages that no longer meet this policy are improved, merged or removed.
The team at DixonAppStudio LLC, which also builds the games. Guest articles are labelled and edited to the same standard.
Yes. Game pages with a research section list their sources, with a DOI or stable link for each study.
No. Ads are served by Google AdSense between game rounds, and affiliate links are marked. No company can pay to be featured.
Email support@mindskillsarcade.com with a link to the page. We check and correct it.