Big Brain Academy, known in Japan as Yawaraka Atama Juku (やわらかあたま塾?), is a puzzle video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan on June 30, 2005, and was later released in North America on June 5, 2006, in Australia on July 5, 2006, and in Europe on July 7, 2006. It has been compared to Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!. It is marketed under the Nintendo's Touch! Generations brand.
A sequel, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, was released on the Wii in April 2007.
The TV advertisements for Big Brain Academy was not only to debut the game, but also the Nintendo DS Lite system.
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the intestines like a motorcycle racer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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