Dialed

About Dialed

Dialed started with Color: a colour flashes on screen, then you recreate it on hue, saturation and brightness sliders, and the game scores how close you came in each of five rounds. The same idea runs through the rest of the set. Color-Toon shows a cartoon with one colour wrong to fix from memory, Sound plays a tone you tune back to, Time asks you to hold for a duration you felt, Shape has you rebuild a shape's size and rotation, Pattern asks you to swap moved tiles back, and Tempo has you rebuild a beat one track at a time.

Each game offers a daily challenge alongside practice difficulties, and daily results go on a leaderboard so you can compare with everyone who played the same rounds. Scores come with blunt one-line verdicts, and you can post a score to challenge a friend head to head.

The games are free in the browser with ads; one subscription removes ads across every Dialed game. It suits people who enjoy testing their senses rather than their vocabulary, and want something that takes a minute.

How to play Dialed

1. Pick one of the games from the Dialed home page and choose Daily.
2. Watch, listen or feel the target for a moment: a colour, a tone, a duration or a shape.
3. Rebuild it from memory with the sliders, dial or controls the game gives you.
4. Play all five rounds; each is scored out of 10, for a total out of 50.
5. Compare on the daily leaderboard or challenge a friend with your score.

Tips

• In Color, fix the hue first, then saturation and brightness; hue errors cost the most.
• Do not count seconds in Time; the game is about feel, and counting tends to drift.
• In Sound, hum the tone while it plays to hold it in memory.
• Play the daily first, before practice rounds blur your memory of the target.

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