MIND SNAP
Watch the pattern. Keep it. Tap it back.
Perfect boards grow the pattern. Misses shrink it. Three lives.
How to play Mind Snap
Mind Snap is a memory-matrix test: a pattern of tiles lights up on a grid, the grid goes blank, and you tap back the cells that were lit. It is the visual working-memory exercise used in cognitive test batteries and in brain-training apps (the same shape of task as Memory Matrix) with nothing between you and the grid.
A run is twelve trials long. You start with three lives, and tapping a cell that was not lit costs one of them. A second wrong tap ends that trial on the spot. Get a board perfectly right and the next pattern grows by a tile; one wrong tap and it holds; two and it shrinks, so the game finds the size you can actually hold and then pushes at it.
Controls
- Touch or mouse: tap or click the cells you remember. There is nothing else to press during a trial.
- The header tracks the trial number, the score and the lives left; the speaker in the top bar mutes the sound.
Adaptive difficulty and scoring
The grid is sized to the pattern rather than fixed, so it grows with you across a run: from a small board at the start up to 7×7 at the top end, which is 49 cells and well past what most people can hold in one glance.
Scoring is deliberately plain: 250 points for every cell you recall correctly, and 100 more for a board finished without a single wrong tap. The streak counter beside the score tracks consecutive correct taps. It raises the pitch of the tap sound rather than the score, and the end-of-run line reports the longest one you managed. Your best score and the largest pattern you reached are kept in this browser only.
Questions
Is Mind Snap free?
Yes, completely. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, no account and no sign-up. The page loads and the game runs in the browser tab, on desktop or phone.
What is a memory matrix test?
A visual working-memory task: a pattern of tiles is shown briefly on a grid, then hidden, and the player reproduces it from memory. The pattern grows as long as the player keeps getting it right, so the score is an estimate of how much visual information they can hold at once.
How long is a run?
Twelve trials, or until three lives are gone. A perfect board grows the next pattern by one tile, a single miss holds it, and a worse trial shrinks it. So the difficulty settles near your actual limit within a few trials.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Tapping cells is the only input, and the grid sizes itself to the screen, so it plays the same on a phone as on a desktop.
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