Visual memory test, which tiles lit up?

The visual memory test shows a grid of squares. A few of them light up for a moment, then go dark. Your job is to click the squares that lit up. Each level adds a tile, and the grid grows from 3x3 up to 7x7, so the test keeps getting harder. You have three lives. A wrong click costs one, shows you where the tiles were, and repeats the level with a new pattern. Your score is the last level you finished. It is a game for fun, not a clinical test.

How to play the visual memory test

1. Choose how long the tiles show under How long the tiles show: Short (0.7 s), Normal (1.2 s) or Long (2 s).
2. Watch the grid. The tiles light up for the time you chose.
3. When the message says Click the tiles that lit up, click them. A right tile turns green.
4. Find them all to move up a level. Click a wrong tile and you lose a life.
5. When the three lives are gone, the game shows your level. Play again starts a new run.

How the levels grow

The tiles to find are the level number plus 2, but never more than 60% of the squares, so a small grid never fills up. Level 5 asks for 7 tiles on a 4x4 grid, which has 16 squares.

Ways to remember more tiles

• See shapes. A group of four tiles in a row is one thing to remember, not four.
• Use the edges and corners as anchors. Say to yourself top-left, middle-right.
• Take in the whole grid with a soft gaze. Moving your eyes from tile to tile costs time you do not have at Short.
• If you lose a life, the right tiles show for a moment. Study them, since the next pattern will be new.

Your results

The page keeps your best level and your last ten games, with the date, in this browser. Compare results only at the same look time. The patterns come from your browser's secure random generator, so no two games are the same, and nothing is sent anywhere.

To try other kinds of recall, play the number memory test or the sequence memory test, or open all four at memory games.