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                      Dialed Game Tests Your Color Memory

   Adam Engst

   The designers at Lightspark write:

     Humans can't reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see
     how good (or bad) you are at it.

   [1]Dialed shows you a color for 5 seconds, then asks you to recreate it
   using three color sliders. Recreate the exact color for 10 points; the
   game awards lower scores based on how close you are. A round consists
   of five colors, so a perfect score would be 50 points. Although I'm not
   a particularly visual person'I have aphantasia and can't mentally 'see'
   images in my head'I scored over 42 points in several tries at the easy
   level. I consistently overestimated saturation, dialing in more vivid
   hues than the target color actually had. At the hard level, you only
   get 3 seconds, and the countdown tries to confuse you by showing
   unrelated colors. A multiplayer version gives you a link that shows the
   same five colors to everyone and compares your scores.

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