Do you find yourself stuck at home with nothing to do? Looking for something entertaining to stay engaged? If yes, you have come the right way. Read on to get some interesting ways to keep yourself engaged in the Covid era. 

Staying at home all day can be bring your routine life to a halt, making you bored and frustrated but not if you have some exciting brain and board games to challenge you mind.

Many a times we might fail to acknowledge the importance of games and spend or days working hard to achieve the preset goals. It is essential for people of all age groups to take out time for themselves to relax and free their mind of the stress to improve their mental health.

Get an insight into ways in which one can boost their memory and mental health.

Entertaining Games to Keep the Elders Engaged

1. Brain Games for Adults

It is always good to push your brains and challenge it to perform better. Brain games are believed to boost your mental health and improve cognitive performance. The mind tries hard to solve the puzzles that are new, complex, and challenging. 

An interactive brain-challenging activity like playing Sudoku or puzzle and brain games for adults can help in activating the brain cells, thus, keeping the mental state active and healthy.

2. Indoor Games

Being indoors for long can be tiring and frustrating. It is important to stay active, no matter if you are stuck indoors. Everyone needs a time off to relax and engage in some fun activities. For elders at home, indoor games and fun session is one such way to get free of stress while being engaged in such gaming sessions.

One can spend time in playing indoor games like Guess the Tune, Pictionary, and more such enjoyable games to have a good time at home.

3. Board Games

Tabletop and board games are fun, challenging, and stress relieving. Elders enjoy board games because it doesn’t involve a lot of physical exertion. Studies have found that playing board games can help in lowering the risks of cognitive disorders or depression in elderly. For elders having limited mobility, board games are the best fir to have a good time to lift the moods.

Jenga, Chronology, Checkers, and many such games can be taken up to enjoy with friends while being stuck at home.

4. Card & Quiz Games

Card games are another fun pass time elders can go for. It is a great way to socialize and have fun. Card games are an exciting way to improve memory and the thinking ability as it requires the player to remember their cards, analyze their moves, and predict different outcomes. These games teach logic, improve concentration power, and quick thinking. Try playing bridge or Gin Rummy and win-up with all the good luck that you have in store.

One should understand the importance of indoor games and make it a routine task for themselves. Fun and games should be a part of daily routine, no matter how old you get. Socialize with your friends and enjoy the free times reliving the childhood fun days. Gather with your friends to have an exciting evening together. Playing games has always been linked to reducing stress for children and even the elders. Try out these fun games and get free of the mind stress and anxiety.

What makes guitar amplifiers a complimentary accessory to a guitar that makes it a necessity to have? Well in some they are somewhat known as a pair that fit together perfectly as you can’t have one without the other, it would be as if you would have cereal without the milk or in a more musician side of things, having a drum set without the cymbals. Hopefully that didn’t confuse you too much with those metaphors and what not, but actually help you have a clearer understanding onto why guitar amplifiers are needed.

What are guitar amplifiers needed for?

As already stated and known worldwide, when it comes to electric guitars they play a big role in practically every types of music there is today, but in that equation a guitar amplifier has always played a big part of that. The main use of an amplifier is for those times that you want to amplify your sound, if you go to a concert or a performance event it is a must that you use an amplifier, for an acoustic setup or for practising purposes it isn’t very necessary to use an amplifier.

A guitar amplifier may seem complicated and be hard to comprehend, but it general its simply electrical wires all together and once you fully sit and look into it, it wouldn’t take a very long time to understand what is exactly inside. There are different features on an amplifier that differentiates each one, from their tubes, valve, solid-state, the watts and so on.

Types of amplifiers?

Tube

The tube is one of the many parts that make an amplifier work, being one of the main contributors which are also known as a vacuum tube. Being a small air-tight piece of glass that has specific metal parts within it, which would heat up and result in the voltage rising and flow through a different magnet, this would result in a loud sound from the speaker.

It is commonly known that a tube should heat up before they are used as well as leaving you amplifier run for approximately 30 seconds before you officially begin playing. You can find two power switch on almost all amplifier, one being the on switch and the other being the standby mode. The reason behind using the standby mode would be to protect the amp by only putting the voltage to the heating area of the tube. A guitar amp has two different types of tubes being the pre-amp tube and the power tube. The pre-amp tubes creates the voltage that comes from the guitars pass through amp strong enough, whereas the power tubes are used to make the amp loud.

Solid State

The solid-state amps are known that way as they use transistors for the preamp and power sections, being very reliable and rarely need any repair to them. Having a clean tone to them with a few amplifiers having the options of the distortion, these solid-state amps are fairly popular to use if you are looking for something that is sturdy and easy to transport around. A lot of the practice amps that are cheaper than the rest tend to be solid-state amps.

Modeling (digital)

A modeling amp uses a digital processor that would simulate the sound of an old fashioned tube technology. These amps are programmed and have various built-in effects such as the delay, chorus and many more, something else that is also included would be a digital or analog outputs that are used to connect to a recording interface or even a PA system.

Features in an amplifier?

There are many features that can be found in the different types of amplifiers, some of these features are the reverb, effects and son on.

Reverb

Depending on the amp they may use the spring reverbs, in which it gives off a very natural and soothing sound, this is in comparison to the other that would use a digital reverb.

Built-in Effects

Various amps today have their own built-in effect, such as tremolo being another effect that many of the amps would feature. The modeling amps would usually already  contain built-in digital effects.

Which amplifier would be the best to choose from?

• There are so many brands out there that are known for their guitar amplifiers, so at times it can be difficult to choose out of so many options. Usually what makes the process easier would be to either read up the specifications online, compile a list of the ones that caught your eye and after go to a music store and test them out to see which is more suitable for you. Some of the brand that make stand out the most would usually be the most popular or the ones that are used by your favorite musicians, you can take a look at Orange Amps, Blackstar, Ampeg, Mesa Boogie, these are just a few of the brands that do not disappoint with their amplifiers.

Mesa Boogie John Petrucci JP 2C

A limited edition amplifier from Mesa Boogie, in collaboration with John Petrucci being an avid user of the brand.

• Wattage: 100 or 60 Watts
• Power Tube Type: 4x Mesa 6L6
• Channels & Modes: 3 Channels/ 5 Modes
• Graphics EQ / Reverb / FX / Solo: Two Graphics EQs, Reverb & FX Loop

Blackstar HT Club 50 MKII

The HT Club 50 MKII is a versatile amp that provides all the right tones that you would need.

• EQ: 3band EQ, ISF (OD Channel), 2 band EQ (Clean)
• Footswitch: 2x ¼ “ (2 way, 5 way)
• Number of Channels: 2 channel, 4 voices
• Total Power: 40W
• Preamp Tubes: 2 x 12AX7
• Power Tubes 2 x EL34
• Reverb Dark/ Light

All that were mentioned above are just one of the various different types of amplifiers that each brand offers. If you are interested and want to know more about each brand you can search through their sites to find which local music store would have what you are looking for. It is always better good to test out the amp before making a purchase, it is best not to make an investment in something you will never touch.