Find the emoji

Spot the target in a grid that gets busier every round, before the clock runs out.

The grid

1round

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Find 🦊

60 seconds, starting when you press Start. Every round adds cells and picks lookalikes that are harder to tell apart.

How it works

Controls

Why the later rounds are genuinely harder

The first rounds fill the grid with whatever comes to hand, and finding a fox among cars is a matter of looking. From round 3 the distractors come from the target's own family: a fox sits in a grid of dogs, wolves and raccoons, and a full moon hides among its own phases. The grid grows at the same time, so the search goes from glancing to scanning.

That is the part worth knowing about your own attention: a visual search is quick when the target differs on 1 obvious feature, and slow when it differs on several small ones. The game only makes the second kind.

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The score here is yours alone, kept on this device. Emojery counts emoji where other people can see them: on the post, the video, the repo or the product you are already looking at.