A color match game. See the target, find the swatch that matches it. Decoys get closer every round.
Ready when you are
Match is the colour-matching variant of Color Memory Game. Every round shows a target swatch and a grid of candidate swatches. Exactly one of the candidates is identical to the target. The rest are decoys, shifted in one or more HSV channels by a known amount. Your job is to tap the candidate that matches the target, before the ten-second clock runs out. The size of the decoy shifts shrinks every round.
This is colour matching in the strict sense. The target is on screen the whole time, so there is nothing to remember. Pure side-by-side comparison. It is the closest thing on the site to a clinical colour-discrimination test, played in a browser without an account.
Round one opens with four candidates and a comfortable perceptual gap. Round five has nine candidates and a gap close to the just-noticeable-difference threshold for an unprimed eye. The decoys are spread across hue, saturation, and value shifts so you cannot lock onto a single visual heuristic. Some decoys are slightly warmer or cooler than the target. Others are slightly more or less saturated. By round four you will see decoys that combine two channels at once, which is the hardest type to spot because the difference does not have a single obvious axis.
Two techniques tend to outperform raw scanning. The first is parking your gaze on the target for a second to fix the colour in your eye before looking at the candidates. The second is the binary cull: split the grid in half mentally, decide which half looks closer to the target, and ignore the other half. Repeat until you are choosing between two or three. The harder rounds reward this kind of structured looking over rapid darting.
Most online colour matching games are pitched at children: bright primaries, generous tolerances, obvious right answers. Match is the opposite. The early rounds are friendly, but the later rounds sit at the perceptual threshold where designers, photographers, and print colour technicians do most of their real work. If you have looked for a colour matching game that actually pushes a trained eye, this is the one.
A correct pick is worth 10 points, plus up to 2 bonus points for a fast answer. The bonus scales linearly: pick instantly and you get the full +2; pick at the buzzer and you get nothing. A wrong pick or a timeout scores zero. With five rounds at a 12-point ceiling each, the perfect run is 60 points. Anyone who clears 50 has a sharp eye.
