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Dialed is a gaming website that tests senses and memory through mini-games focused on color, sound, time, and shape. A color-matching game shows a color briefly, removes it, and asks players to recreate it using hue, saturation, and brightness controls, then scores closeness to the original. Data indicates vivid blues and greens are easiest to recall, while cyans and reds are hardest, and pastels are about 7% harder than vivid colors. The site launched in February and reached roughly half a million plays quickly, then expanded with additional mini-games. A sound game tests frequency recreation, followed by time and shape matching games, with growth attributed to a repeatable stimulus-perception and recreation scoring formula.

"Dialed is a gaming website that tests players' senses and memory in games about color, sound, time, and shape. Geoff Teehan, chief design officer at the payments services company Lightspark and former vice president of design at Meta, created a color-matching game using Cursor and Claude during a hackathon."

"The color-matching game he vibe-coded is simple: It shows you a color for a few brief moments, and then takes it away and tests how well you can re-create it using controls to set hue, saturation, and brightness. Players are then scored based on how close they come to matching the original."

"Teehan says their data shows vivid blues and greens are some of the easiest colors for people to successfully recall, while cyans and reds are some of the hardest. Pastels are 7% harder to match than vivid colors, he says."

"He brought on his son Sam to run and grow it full time in hopes of turning the website into a real business, and it's since expanded into more vibe-coded mini-games along similar lines. A sound game, in which players try to recreate a tone's frequency, launched in March, followed by a time-matching game in April and a shape-matching game this past Tuesday."

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