This will drive you nuts
 

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/colorama/

It's not as easy as it first seems...

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Not really very hard.

I took it to 170 points and started to get very bored, does it ever stop .... :zzz:

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Yep, driving me nuts ok.....

Just seems to go on and on, with no end in sight.....

I'm assuming there is a point to it?

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quite a fun game - apparently i have an IQ of a 100 now, and that's good enough for me :D I like the way there is a three-second gap in between the displays so you can read the adverts on the right hand side of the page :p:

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Is it supposed to be an exercise in IQ or in boredom threshold?

I don't really see what intelligence has got to do with it, just scan the groups of colours until you spot the difference. Not hard.

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I think it's meant to be a vague version of a working memory test, which are often given to assess someone's IQ, but it's not really hard enough to be a true assessment. normally they get you to do things like recite strings of numbers - then recite a whole load of others, but backwards, which is really hard :)

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It would make more sense if you saw one picture for a few seconds and then that one dissapeared and your were shown the other, then you had to say which square was different.....

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managed 140

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I don't see what this has to do with working memory. It's not even time limited is it? Attention perhaps, but it's nothing like backward digit span.

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I thought that's what they were going for - testing the visuospatial sketchpad and mental imagery, both of which have been tied to WM. :)

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It is time related, as you go on the little green bar next to your score depletes more and more quickly (tbh it's barely noticeable though).

I managed 270 and then my connection broke so I'll have to restart :(

Don't think I'll bother though, it gets tedious after a while.....

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Indeed, the Visuospatial Sketchpad is one of the components of WM :)

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As is Mental Imagery..... Apparently..... :erm:

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Errrm No... Mental Imagery is a process that draws upon WM, as most processes do (excluding automatic processes) :)

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Oh.....

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A great source of useless information me :)

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raistlin, read 'working memory' as RAM, and imagine it working in someone's head, rather than in a PC. you can use it to do lots of things - like compare the pictures on that game here, but it does have a limited capacity.

the idea we were on about is that apparently people with a higher IQ have a higher capacity of working memory, and, as mental imagery uses working memory, people who are better at the game, according to the people who made it, will have a higher IQ.. or something.. but it seems like they used a very loose interpretation of these ideas when they were designing it, as it isn't really difficult enough to tax your abilities.

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Good explanation. Somebody give that guy a rep, as I can't :)

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I would, but I need to whore it around a bit as well.....
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Done.

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what was the question again :erm:

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lol, glad you lked it :) although I did just do an essay on something similar, so I'm kind of cheating :D

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This has little to do with IQ. I have got it up to a score of 500 in about 2 minutes by using an image merge technique, and could carry on way beyond this. Just go cross-eyed and merge the two images into a third one in the middle. Focus on the centre image and any differences in the two images will "glow". Just click on the glowing square in the central phantom image (which isn't there really, just in your head!). You can use this technique to solve "spot the difference" puzzles very easily.

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There are >30 of them. I didn't spot it within the time limit on no. 23, but managed all the other ones... (up to 330 so far)

[Oh - hang on - there are more... the server is responding very slowly atm.]

It says at the bottom of the page:

So I might give it a rest in a mo'. :)

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230... then started losing the will to live.

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320

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Yawn!!! How boring is that