Mimic

Watch, listen, and repeat — a color-and-sound memory game that grows one step at a time.

How to play

Four colored pads each light up with their own tone. The game plays a sequence, then it's your turn to repeat it exactly. Each successful round adds one more step to the pattern, so the sequence keeps stretching until your memory slips.

• Watch and listen to the full sequence before you respond.
• Tap the pads back in the same order to advance to a longer round.
• A single wrong pad ends the run — your length is your score.

Controls

• Desktop: click the four pads, or use keys 1-4 / Q, W, A, S; Enter or Space starts.
• Phone & tablet: tap the pads directly — fully touch-friendly.

Tips & strategy

• Use the tones as much as the colors — pairing sound to position locks the pattern in deeper.
• Chunk the sequence into small groups of two or three to remember long strings.
• Don't rush your input; the clock isn't against you, only your accuracy is.

Origins

Mimic recreates the electronic memory game that became a pop-culture fixture around 1980 — a ring of colored panels that lights up in an ever-growing sequence of tones for you to repeat back. Simple, hypnotic and maddening, it helped define the handheld electronic-game craze.

About Mimic

Mimic is an original take on the repeat-the-sequence memory toy, free to play instantly in your browser.

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