Memory Plays

Mnemonic Gaming Workout

Create Your Own

With the Number-Shape Pegging Method, generate random items or exercise on daily lists. As mnemonics is not a faculty of rote memory, you have to re-wire associations of all sorts. Internally, creativity is the key faculty. Devise new strategies and test them.

Mnemonics can tease and titillate your mind. It should even seduce your mind. In a play of rhymes, associates and play of words, it is meant to seem stupid. The dynamics in the imagery you create may seen exaggerated, but visualizations are meant to be clear, vivid, and not confusing. It has to be `easy to see` and leaving a `mnemonic strong taste` to be `easy to recall`.

Exercise 1: Devise new strategies and test them. For example, enumerating with months. 
Now you can also designate 12 friends in each month, and menmonically tie them to events or festive seaons or myths related to the festival.
January   : Fireworks (new year) / Janus, the god of doors and gates
February  : Heart (valentine)
March     : Soldiers marching / Mars, the god of war
April     : A fool / clown
May       : Maibaum / 'Mayflower'
June      : Goddess Juno
July      : Julius Caesar
August    : Augustus Caesar
September : Fringe Observer
October   : `Red October` submarine
November  : Turkey…