About this game: SYNAPSE
Six abilities. Twenty-four tests. One board.
A mind lab on a five by five board. Six labs test six abilities, from finding a hidden rule to playing from memory, planning ahead, turning space, resisting a lying colour and keeping pace. Every test is timed or counted, and a mind profile shows where you stand.
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What you get
- Six labs, each a different ability: patterns, memory, planning, space, control and tempo
- A hidden rule to work out by watching, and four answers to choose from when you think you have it
- Twenty-four tests with one to three stars, and a mind profile that fills in lab by lab
- A test of the day, the same for everyone, walking through the labs one day each
Your controls
- ↑ ↓ ← →W A S D
- Slide every neuron
- H
- Name the hidden rule (Patterns lab)
- R
- Start the test again
- Esc
- Pause
- TouchSwipe on the board to slide
Ways to play
- Six labs, twenty-four tests
- Test of the day
- Training
Plays on
- Devices
- Desktop, Tablet, Phone
- Controls
- Keyboard, Touch
- Orientation
- Any
- Genre
- Puzzle / Brain training
Music
The tracks you hear in this game, and the people who made them.
Before you play
Is this an IQ test?
No. It is a game built on the kinds of tasks such tests use: finding a rule, holding a picture in mind, planning, turning space, ignoring a misleading colour and keeping pace. The profile shows how you do in the game, not a score about you.
How do the neurons work?
Every move slides all of them. Two of a kind that meet pair and charge; a charged one that pairs fires and clears its neighbours, and any charged neighbour fires in turn, which is how chains are made.
Is my progress saved?
Your stars, bests and the daily results are kept in this browser. The test of the day is the same for everybody on a given day.