🧠 Memory+
Repeat the growing sequence until you can't. Memory+ tests working-memory span — free in your browser, no download, no signup. Memory+ is a solo mode with a world leaderboard — play it any time at blocks.pw/s/memory, no download or signup.
How to play Memory+
- Watch a sequence of blocks light up — it starts short.
- Repeat it by tapping in order.
- Each round the sequence grows by one.
- One wrong tap ends the run; your longest sequence is the score.
Rules and scoring
A classic span test in game form: the score is literally the length of the longest sequence your working memory held. Most untrained runs break between 7 and 9 items — the famous "magical number seven" showing up on schedule.
Past ten, raw memorisation stops working and strategy takes over: chunking blocks into shapes, building paths, narrating patterns. The world leaderboard is a ranking of technique disguised as a memory test.
Strategy: how to win at Memory+
- Chunk from round one — "L-shape top, pair bottom" scales; individual positions don't.
- Trace the path with your eyes during playback, like a route on a map, not a list of stops.
- Keep a steady tap rhythm on recall; rushing the easy start is how 12-length runs die at 6.
- When a sequence extends, only the new block is new — attach it to your existing structure instead of re-learning everything.
Where Memory+ fits
Solo scores post to the world leaderboard and your country leaderboard, so a good run means something. When you want a human opponent instead of a clock, the quick match duels pull from the same skills.