The Memory section has 16 games for working, visual, spatial and verbal memory. They include well-known methods from neuropsychology — the Corsi test, n-back, backward digit span — alongside childhood classics like Memory Cards and the Shell Game.
Follow the cup with the ball. Trains tracking moving objects and keeping your attention steady.
How to play: Remember the cup hiding the ball, then tap Shuffle. Follow the identical cups as they move. Once they stop, tap the cup hiding the ball. The correct answer appears after your choice. Choose the number of attempts in settings. Settings: 3 to 6 cups and shuffle speed from 0.5× to 2.5×. Your score is the percentage of correct answers.
Memorise a set of items and spot what disappeared. A classic visual memory exercise.
How to play: Memorize all items on the screen. After they disappear, one item will be missing. Point out which one!
Memorise a sequence of emojis and find them all in a table. The load grows every round.
How to play: Emojis appear one by one. Memorize them, then select all shown emojis from the table. If you tap the wrong one - you lose. Each round has more emojis and a larger table.
Memorise a 3–12 second duration and reproduce it without a clock — training your internal timer.
How to play: Memorize the target duration (3–12s), then press “Stop” as close to it as possible.
Memorise the order of emojis and recall what was in a given position. Starts with five and grows.
How to play: Emojis are shown in order. Memorize them, then answer which emoji was at the specified position. Each round has more emojis. Starts with 5 emojis.
Learn number-swap rules in 4 seconds and apply them from memory. Pure working memory.
How to play: Number replacement rules appear first. Memorize them in 4 seconds. Then guess the correspondences.
Count in your head how many times each emoji appeared. You watch and keep four counters at once.
How to play: Memorize how many times each of the 4 emojis appears. A total of 10 emojis will appear.
Memorise a list of words and type them from memory. Trains verbal memory — useful for study and to-do lists.
How to play: Memorize words in order of appearance. After memorizing, enter them.
The Corsi block test: repeat the sequence of highlighted cells. Measures visuospatial memory span.
How to play: Memorize the flashing sequence in a 3×3 grid and reproduce it. Length increases by 1.
Learn more →Link names to “faces” — a skill that pays off in meetings and when you meet new people.
How to play: Remember which name corresponds to which emoji, then match them.
A grid with green cells flashes for a moment and you rebuild the pattern. Snapshot visual memory.
How to play: A table with green cells will appear for a moment, then disappear. Your task is to tap exactly the cells that were green. Each round gets harder.
The chimp test: remember where the numbers are and tap them in order once they are hidden.
How to play: Tap numbers in ascending order. Sometimes they disappear — tap from memory.
Try it online →Find matching pairs by flipping two cards at a time. The childhood classic for visual and spatial memory.
How to play: Cards with symbols on screen. Flip two at a time to find pairs. The faster, the better.
Learn more →An n-back task: tap when the letter matches the one from three steps back. One of the best-known working memory challenges.
How to play: Letters appear one by one. Press the button if the current letter matches the one from 3 steps ago. Trains working memory!
Learn more →Track several identical balls and recall the number of the one that dropped into the hole. Multiple-object tracking.
How to play: Remember the numbers on identical balls and tap Launch the balls. The numbers disappear as the balls move and bounce off the rails. One ball lands in the hole. Choose its original number. The correct number appears after you answer; continue to the next round when ready. Settings: 3–8 balls, speed from 0.5× to 3×, and 3–20 rounds.
Backward digit span: see 8-3-1-7, type 7-1-3-8. Adaptive length keeps you right at your limit.
How to play: Digits are shown one by one: 8, 3, 1, 7. Enter them in reverse order: 7, 1, 3, 8. The answer is checked as soon as the whole chain is typed. Get it right and the next chain is longer; get it wrong and it gets shorter, but never shorter than the starting length. Settings: number of attempts, starting length and time per symbol.
Learn more →When people say they have a “bad memory”, they usually mean working memory — the ability to hold and handle information right now: a phone number someone reads out, the conditions of a problem, a thought you don’t want to lose. Its capacity is limited: George Miller’s classic estimate was “7 ± 2” items, while more recent research tends to point to around four meaningful chunks.
Beyond working memory there is visual memory (what it looked like), spatial memory (where it was), verbal memory (what was said) and long-term memory. Cabe has games for each.
Games raise your scores on trained tasks and teach strategies: grouping items, rehearsing, visualising. Those skills are useful outside the app too. But for memory overall three things matter just as much: sleep (the brain consolidates the day’s learning during sleep), physical activity and spaced repetition. More in our guide How to improve your memory.
A long chain like 8-3-1-7-2-9 is easier to remember as three pairs: 83, 17, 29. This technique is called chunking, and you can practise it in Reverse Order and Remember the Emojis.
Face Memory links names with faces. Instant Table asks you to rebuild a pattern that flashed for a split second. Whose Ball? and the Shell Game make you track identical moving objects. Sense of Time asks you to memorise a duration and reproduce it without a clock. Words is the classic list-memorising task.
Pick two or three games for different kinds of memory and rotate them. In most games difficulty adapts automatically: a correct answer makes the next task longer, a mistake makes it shorter. That keeps you training right at the edge of your ability, where progress is fastest.
For working memory: n-back, backward digit span and Number Replacement. For visuospatial memory: Corsi blocks, the chimp test and Instant Table. For verbal memory: Words and Face Memory. Rotating between kinds works best.
In Kyoto University studies, young chimpanzees were very accurate when numbers were shown only briefly. Later work showed that humans also improve a lot with practice. Try the online chimp test.
Yes, memory skills can be trained at any age. Regular mental challenge, sleep, exercise and social contact all support memory. If your memory gets noticeably worse quickly, see a doctor — games are not enough.
Five to ten minutes a day is enough. One memory game takes one to three minutes.
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