Glimpse — the daily memory gauntlet
How much can you hold from one look? Glimpse is a free browser memory game: five quick rounds, the same for everyone each day, and every round gives you exactly one glimpse. No signup — a full daily takes about a minute.
The five rounds
| CELLS | Five cells of a grid flash for a moment, then the grid goes blank. Tap the cells you saw, then lock in. |
| SPOT | A dot appears for under a second and vanishes. Tap exactly where it was — scored by how close you land. |
| ORDER | Tiles light up one at a time. Tap them back in the same order. |
| DIGITS | A number flashes, then it's gone. Key it back in on the pad. |
| WHICH | Two shapes flash at once in different places. Then you're asked where one of them was — remembering what you saw isn't enough, you need what-was-where. |
Scoring
Every round scores your recall from 0 to 100 — full marks for perfect recall, partial credit for close. Your daily result is the average of the five rounds, plus a five-square trail (🟩 sharp · 🟨 fuzzy · 🟥 gone) you can copy and send as a challenge — the link carries your score, so a friend who opens it is dared to out-remember you. Come back tomorrow for a fresh gauntlet and build a daily streak — beat yesterday's score to sharpen it, and if you miss a day your personal best is saved and waiting. The menu shows your last seven days as a chain of squares — each finished gauntlet fills one, and today's pulses until you play. After you finish, the results screen shows today's rivals — how many players ran the gauntlet in the last 24 hours, the best recall among them, and where yours ranks. Rivals are always anonymous: a count and a score, never names or accounts.
Controls
| Answer | Tap with mouse or finger — every round is taps only. |
| Confirm | Tap the LOCK IN button (ORDER locks itself on the fifth tap). |
| Fix a slip | CELLS: tap a cell again to unpick it. ORDER: UNDO. DIGITS: ⌫. |
Modes
Daily gauntlet: 5 seeded rounds, identical for every player worldwide that day. One attempt — one glimpse each. Mid-gauntlet progress is saved if you get interrupted.
Practice — the memory trainer: endless rounds, your way. Pick all five mixed or drill a single skill — cells, spot, order, digits or which. Glimpse keeps a lifetime recall average per skill (from both daily and practice rounds, stored only in your browser), so the picker doubles as your memory profile: it shows your average and round count for each skill and flags your weakest round from today's gauntlet. Every round you finish — daily or practice — also earns recall XP equal to its score: climb a 12-rank ladder from goldfish through snapshot and mind palace up to the unforgetting. Your rank only ever goes up, and it lives in your browser — no account needed.
Tips
- Cells: don't memorize squares — see the shape the pattern makes.
- Digits: chunk it. "58 31 94" survives; "583194" evaporates.
- Order: say the path in your head — "top, end, middle…" — voicing beats staring.
- Which: bind them fast — "triangle left, circle low" — one phrase, both answers.
FAQ
Is it free? Do I need an account? Free, no account, no install. It runs in any modern browser, on phones and school Chromebooks alike.
Is it the same puzzle for everyone? Yes — the daily gauntlet is seeded by the date, so your 73 and your friend's 88 came from identical flashes.
Does it work in my language? Practically yes — the rounds are grids, dots and digits, not words.
Who made this? Glimpse is an original game by Yuki Andersen. More free games: Gauge, Wordpull, Floe, Ballast, Well Duel, Well Putt, Wellspring.
