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Simple game: pick the square with the different color. I only got to level 23, but I'm going to try it at home with my theoretically much nicer monitor.

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Alright, now that I've had some practice with it, I can get up to level 34!

*envies* At home, I was still getting to 23-25, alas!

I got to level 24, where I ran out of time rather than picking the wrong square. I hadn't even realised there was a timer!

It's interesting because even the later ones where the difference was often very subtle, I found that the first square my eye was drawn to always turned out to be the different one.

My brain kept getting confused by the optical illusion of shadows at the crossings of the space between the squares.

Made it to 27 yesterday; it's a lot easier to pick the right square if you're not looking directly at the screen or focusing very hard.

At home, I tried it looking off to the side, and squinting my eyes to blur my vision. Still 23-25, alas!

...I guess my eyes are better than I thought because I got to a certain point and was clicking at random boxes and continuing on and thinking that it must be grading you on how many you got correct because I couldn't possibly be actually be picking these out as different and eventually I ran out of time and it gave me a level.

But apparently I was, because the second time through I clicked on something at around the same point and nothing happened.

I was envious at the Metafilter commenters who managed to get much farther than I did. But I do have a cheap, lowest-bidder type monitor at work and will have to check at home.

I got about as far as you did my first run; I played a couple more times and got to 32 twice. I don't actually know how good my monitor is here though, or if the one on my laptop is better. (It's a Mac, so maybe? Apple is supposed to be better at graphics than Windows.)

I did it again and got a 25. I used Chrome instead of Firefox that time, but I don't know if that makes any difference or if I just got lucky in the color choices.

Hmm, I seem to do fairly okay until a certain mid-blue/grey colour comes up and then I can't tell the difference at all. Top level was 27 (first attempt I got only 15 ^^)

In the Metafilter comments someone had a story of a friend who worked at IBM doing branding stuff who didn't learn she was slightly colorblind for blues until she ended up in a job where she had to compare shades of blue!

I seem to be equally blind in all colors, however. I can't yet find a pattern where I get stopped.

Argh, I didn't realize it was timed! I got to 23.

I didn't realize it was timed until near the end, either! XD

I'm currently fighting a headcold, and the game is way trippy on cold drugs.

I can imagine!

I got a 24 before I was timed out. Some of the midway ones were hard!

Even at home, I was still getting to 23-25 and no further. Sometimes I ended up just clicking madly around at random.

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