Updated Deck: "Tips & Bills": Many of you pointed out that the original version actually didn't ask learners to split bills, but tips only. So we fixed it so level 3 and above now ask learners to split the total bills (with tips) as well. We also relaxed the time restriction in this relatively challenging deck to make it more friendly to new learners.

New Deck: "World History": From the Qing Dyansty to the Incan Empire, from the Black Death to the Chernobyl disaster, this deck covers the history of the world in a fun and engaging way. Try it out!

Updated Deck: "Pattern Party": Looks like V1 was too easy for many of you, so we added more patterns and more difficult levels to challenge you. We also threw in some Holiday Themed cards just to get you into the spirit of the season!

New Deck: "Pattern Party": This is a sister deck to the "Analogy Quest" deck, and is a great way to continue to exercise your reasoning skills. You will be shown a sequence of letters, numbers, shapes, and even emojis, and you must guess what the missing "?" element is. Try it out!

New Deck: We noticed there's quite a few learners from our neighbor to the north, Canada. So we've added a new deck for you to test your knowledge of Canadian History!

New Feature: Answer Explainer. On the answer side of some cards, you will now see an explanation of why the correct answer is the only right answer, or some added context for the answer.

Three decks have been updated with this feature so far: "Analogical Reasoning", "Movie Quotes", and "Thanksgiving Trivia".

New Feature: Challenge Mode! Now you can challenge a friend to a round of Multiplication, Temperature Conversion, or British History trivia to see who does better. The recipient of the challenge will have up to 3 chances to beat your time or score. You can see the result in the new "Messages & Alerts" page under your Profile.

We think this will be perfect for your upcoming Thanksgiving get-together. Try it out and let us know what you think!

New Feature: In preparation for a big new feature next week, we have added a new "Performance Leaderboard"! In addition to the current "Mind Points" Leaderboard, which ranks the amount of work our learners put into each subject, the Performance Leaderboard will show which player had the fastest time or the most accurate answers for each deck.

New Deck: From high kings to high jinks — "Irish History" has never been this fun!

New Deck: "Halloween Trivia" tests your knowledge of our favorite holiday's history, lore, and modern traditions.

New Deck: "U.S. History" This new 500-card deck tests your knowledge of ALL American history, from the founding of the country to the present day.

Updated decks: Last week's new deck "British History" had some issues, which have been fixed.

Expanded decks: One of our most popular decks is "$50 Words". We just doubled the size of that deck, so try it out!

New Deck: "Halloween Trivia" tests your knowledge of our favorite holiday's history, lore, and modern traditions.

New Deck: "British History" is our first knowledge trivia on Britain. See if you know all the kings and queens and their Roman numerals!

Daily Lesson Plan: We betaed this feature last week, and now it's ready for more users. Try it out!

New Deck: "Analogical Reasoning" is our first Reasoning deck to help train your logic and critical thinking skills.

New Deck: "U.S. History - Founding" is our first knowledge trivia on the founding of the United States. It starts easy and gets REALLY hard.

New Deck: "Important IT Terms" is our first Professional deck! For you IT professionals out there, test and train your knowledge on important IT concepts.

New Deck: "Science Trivia" is our first general knowledge deck! Test yourself on science facts that you learned from gradeschool to college.

Daily Lesson Plan: (BETA FEATURE) On the new "Today" tab, you can now create a daily lesson plan to help you stay on track with your brain exercises.

New Look & Feel:We've updated the look and feel of the app to be more crisp, consistent, and mobile-friendly.

New Deck: "Who Said It?" is our first Trivia deck! See if you can guess the famous quote from the person (real or fictional) who said it.

New Deck: "Commonly Misused Words" is a new deck to help users learn and practice commonly misused words like "affect", "peruse", and "enormity".

New Deck: "$50 Words" is a new deck to help users justify their high hourly rates, come off as intelligent in work meetings, or better understand 'The Economist' (thanks KT for the suggestion).

Bug Fix: Button spamming no longer result in "Undfined" cards (thanks DO and OL ).

UX: Age & Years deck now includes a tip about birth dates (thanks CK for the feedback).

Daily Bonus: Added a new "Daily Bonus" feature to grant 50 MPs to users who earn 100mp once a day.

Backend Upgrade: All question generation and answer checking code have been moved to backend for better scalabiltiy and future expansion

XP Adjustments: Removed ability to gain XP with 0% correct.

UX refinement: Added new correct/incorrect sounds. Fixed ghosting issues with card animation.

XP System: Introducing Mind Points (MPs)! Now you can track your efforts on Fyremind with a rewards system that gives you different points for learning (more if you score higher on accuracy or time). Note: this system is still being tweaked, so expect to see your MP to change (mostly up)

Leaderboard: You now can see how your BXP stacks up against other learners, both overall and by subject. This also means the old Timer Mode leaderboard is removed, but it will be replaced by something better (coming soon).

User name: Instead of using your first name in leaderboards and other public areas, we have automatically created fun user names for everyone. You can change the auto-generated user names in Profile.

Fit and Finish: lots of fixes to improve user quality of life, especially for new users.

New Deck: Fahrenheit to Celsius Conversion: for folks visiting the US (or Belize or Liberia... seriously why do we still use Fahrenheit?), a new 4-level deck for users to learn and practice converting Fahrenheit to Celsius in their heads.

New Tip System: A new tip system displays useful tips before or during sessions. When you see a light up, that means there's a useful tip that's related to the question you were just asked that can help answer the next one faster and more accurately.

Fit and Finish: lots of fixes to improve user quality of life, including improved input box UX on mobile devices.

New Deck - Age and Years: new 3-level deck to practice calculating peoples age and birth year. This deck presents famous people across science, sports, politics, and the arts and ask questions related to their age, birth year, and major milestones.

New Deck - Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion: for you fellow Yanks traveling abroad, a new 4-level deck for users to learn and practice converting Celsius to Fahrenheit in their heads.

Leveling Updates: the default practice deck has been redesigned so that at the end of each round, more information about how the user performed, including their recent scores, in a rotating summary view. Also, Timer Mode has been removed to simplify the experience.

Fit and Finish: lots of fixes to improve user quality of life. Also introduced Drako, the Fyremind mascot!

Diagnostic Test: new diagnostic test to assess learner's math abilities using progressive leveling

New Deck - Tips and Bill-split: new 6-level deck for users to practice calculating tip amounts and splitting bills.

Leaderboard: updated Leaderboard page so learners can see rankings for specific card deck, including their relative position.

New Look & Feel: updated colors and icons for home page to be more consistent with brand colors, and refined card animations.

Random carrying: to make math questions more challenging, added random mix of carrying and not carrying for 3+ digit questions (thanks Amy for the feedback)

Level Completed: added all levels completed exepreince.

Leaderboard: basic Leaderboard page so learners can see top-3 learners for each card deck.

User Profile: basic user profile page for info and password updates.

Mixed Math Deck: new 12-level deck that mixes cards from additions, subtractions, & multiplications to create a robust basic math practice set.

Try Before Signup: new users can now try out Fyremind without signing up.

Level Completed: All levels completed exepreince

Mobile Keyboard: due to timing issues caused by mobile devices' built-in keyobard, added app keyboard for mobile users.

New User Welcome Page: added an improved landing page to introduce users to the app and encourage first use..

Basic math decks: add/subtract/multiply decks with leveling built

Timer mode: based on feedback from family, added a timer on/off switch.

Activity History: shows learner's activities on decks they practiced on (later renamed "Performance")