Echo · Memory Sequence

Each round a set of tiles flashes one after another. Watch the order, then reproduce it by tapping the tiles yourself. Get it right and the next sequence adds one more tile; get it wrong and the game ends. Your score is the longest sequence you nailed.

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How to play Echo

Each round a set of tiles flashes one after another. Watch the order, then reproduce it by tapping the tiles yourself. Get it right and the next sequence adds one more tile; get it wrong and the game ends. Your score is the longest sequence you nailed.

What it measures

Echo is a visuospatial working-memory span task — a cousin of the digit-span and Corsi block tests used in cognitive psychology. It taxes your ability to hold an ordered set of items in mind for a few seconds and replay them.

Honest note: Training span games reliably makes you better at span games. Whether it boosts unrelated abilities is genuinely unsettled, so we won't promise it.

What's a good score?

The classic figure is seven plus or minus two; reaching level 9 or 10 is strong. The percentile we show is an estimate based on typical distributions, not a clinical norm.

FAQ

How is my score calculated?

It's the length of the longest sequence you repeated correctly before a mistake.

Any tips?

Group tiles into shapes or rhythms. Chunking beats brute memorisation.

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