Colorify: the free colour memory game for iPhone and Android (how it works + tips)

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Intro

Colorify is a free colour memory game for iPhone, iPad and Android. It shows you a colour, takes it away, and asks you to rebuild it. Full disclosure: it's made by Image Devices, the company behind GeekyGoo.

How a round works

Each round has three steps. Remember the colour while the countdown runs. Rebuild it with three sliders. Then see how close you got.

The sliders are hue, saturation and brightness, the same controls you'll find in most colour pickers. And you can't peek at the original.

Hue, saturation and brightness

Hue is which colour it is, around the colour wheel. Saturation is how vivid it is, from grey to rich. And brightness is how light it is, from black to full.

Scoring, Easy and Hard

After each colour, you see your match next to the original, with the exact numbers, a score out of a hundred, and a one-line verdict.

A game is five colours, so a perfect score is five hundred. Easy mode gives you five seconds to memorise each colour. Hard gives you just three.

Tips to score higher

To score higher, describe the colour in words while you look. Set hue first, then saturation, then brightness. It's easy to remember a colour as more vivid than it was, so try going a little greyer. And turn off night-time screen tints.

Leaderboard, price and download

There's a leaderboard of the top two hundred players. And time trials and multiplayer battles are on the way.

Colorify is free, you can play it offline, and the Android version is supported by ads.

The full guide, with more tips and the download links, is on geekygoo dot com. The link's in the description.