Colour Says
Repeat an ever-growing colour sequence from memory and see how many rounds you can hold in your head.
About this game
Colour Says is the classic memory-chain game, and it is deceptively hard. Four coloured pads light in a sequence; you repeat it by tapping them in the same order. Each successful round adds one more colour to the chain, and the sequence is never reset — a twenty-round game means remembering twenty steps in exactly the right order.
The difficulty is not speed, it is length. Early rounds are trivial, but somewhere around round twelve the chain stops fitting in short-term memory as a single picture and you have to start chunking it — grouping four or five colours into a mental phrase and stacking the phrases. Players who learn to chunk routinely double their scores.
There is a sound cue for every colour and many people find it easier to remember the melody than the colours themselves. Both cues are always available, so it does not matter which one your memory prefers.
Rounds are fast — a full game to failure usually takes two to four minutes. Your longest sequence is saved locally so you can watch yourself improve across days.
How to play
- Watch the whole sequence first, do not start tapping early.
- Chunk the chain: group four or five colours into a phrase rather than memorising single taps.
- Say the colours out loud in your head — verbalising roughly doubles retention for most players.
- Use the tone as a second track; humming the melody is often easier than tracking colour names.
- When the chain gets long, replay the last four taps in your mind instead of the entire sequence.
Questions
Does the game speed up?
The playback rate stays consistent; the challenge comes from the sequence getting longer, not faster.
Can I turn off the sound?
Yes, the mute button disables the tones, but keeping them on gives you a second memory channel.
Is there a maximum round?
No fixed maximum — the chain keeps growing by one until you make a mistake.
How is my score measured?
Your score is the length of the longest sequence you reproduced correctly, saved on your device.