Color Memory Game

See a color for 3 seconds, then rebuild it from memory. Five colors per game, 10 points each.

How to play

Watch. A color fills the screen for 3 seconds.
Rebuild it. Drag in the square to set saturation and brightness, then drag the rainbow strip to set the hue. The whole screen shows your mix as you go.
Lock it in. You get a score out of 10, the real color next to yours, and a tip on what was off.

Five colors make a game, so a perfect run is 50. The controls sit at the bottom of the screen, so you can play one-handed on a phone. On a keyboard, the arrow keys move the focused control (hold Shift for bigger steps) and Enter locks in your pick.

Today’s colors vs practice

Today’s colors are the same five for everyone, so you can compare scores with friends. A new set starts at midnight your time, and playing on back-to-back days builds a streak. Practice gives you five random colors, and you can play as many games as you like.

How the score works

ColorKit measures the gap between your color and the target in OKLab, a color space designed so that equal distances look roughly equally different to the eye. An exact match scores 10. The score drops in a straight line as the gap grows and reaches 0 at an OKLab distance of 0.3, which is about the gap between a teal and a sky blue.

Tips for a higher score

Give the color a name while you look at it. “Dusty teal” is easier to hold on to than a blur of blue-green.
Ask three questions in order: how light is it, how strong is it, and which way does the hue lean?
Read the tip after each color. The game tells you if you went too light, too dark, too muted, too vivid, or toward the wrong hue.

Every color has a name

The game draws from 248 named colors, from Zaffre to Jade. At the end of each game, every answer links to its ColorKit page with the hex code, RGB values, shades, and palettes that use it. Browse them all in the color names list, or brush up on the classics with the HTML color names.

Want to pick colors without a timer? The color picker uses the same kind of saturation square and hue strip, the color wheel shows how hues relate, and the palette generator will build a palette around any color you liked.