Dialed Color Game
Humans are surprisingly bad at recalling exact colors. Dialed is a minimalist browser game that tests how accurately you can remember hue, saturation, and brightness under pressure.
Why Dialed Works
Simple rules, harsh feedback, and just enough tension to make every round feel personal.
Color Memory Challenge
Study five colors, hold them in memory, and rebuild them as accurately as possible before your instincts fall apart.
Solo Mode
Choose your difficulty and test how consistent your perception really is when you rely only on memory.
Multiplayer Rooms
Share the same color set with friends and compete to see who can reconstruct each palette most precisely.
Daily Challenge
Everyone gets the same set of colors for the day, which turns every attempt into a fair global comparison.
Global Leaderboard
Scores are measured across five colors for a total of 50 points, making every small correction matter.
Instant Browser Play
No install, no account wall, no onboarding maze. Open the page and start memorizing colors immediately.
How the Game Works
Three steps to learn, endless room to fail, improve, and obsess over tiny color differences.
Study the Colors
The game shows five generated colors for a short window. Pay attention to hue, saturation, and brightness before they disappear.
Rebuild from Memory
Once the colors are hidden, use the color controls to recreate each one as closely as your memory allows.
Get Scored
Each recreated color is scored against the original. Smaller HSB differences mean higher points, with 50 points as the perfect total.
HSB Scoring
Every color is measured across hue, saturation, and brightness. The lower the difference, the higher the score.
Hue carries the heaviest visual identity. The closer your angle is on the 0°–360° wheel, the more points you keep.
Saturation measures intensity. Drift too far toward gray or too far toward pure pigment and your score drops quickly.
Brightness tracks lightness. Even if hue is close, a color that is too dark or too washed out will cost points.
Perfect score: 5 colors × 10 points = 50
45+ means elite precision, 35+ means strong control, and 25+ means your instincts are still working.
What Players Say
Short rounds, sharp feedback, and enough difficulty to make people talk about it afterward.
"This game caused a minor existential crisis. I design interfaces for a living and still cannot reconstruct a basic red consistently."
— UI Designer
"The Daily challenge is way harsher than it looks. I keep opening one quick round and losing twenty minutes trying to fix a single shade."
— Daily Player
"It works as both a game and a color training drill. The feedback loop is simple, brutally honest, and weirdly satisfying."
— Illustration Creator