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Tea set #15

Medium brew · three games · about 4 minutes

Cups in this set

Each cup counts when you play it at the level shown here.

Set #15 sits between the gentle and the strong sets, a good everyday cup.

In this pot: a steady eye, quick hands. It opens with Reaction Time and finishes with Ink & Word.

What is in the pot

CupGameLevelFirst taskTime
1Reaction TimeLeft or rightwaits 1.8–3.18 sabout 1 min
2Odd One OutHard5 × 5 to 7 × 7about 2 min
3Ink & WordMedium‘yellow’ in yellowabout 1 min

The three cups

Cup 1: Reaction Time

Reaction Time, Left or right: waiting calmly and moving the instant something changes. The first eight waits fall between 1.8 and 3.18 s.

Tip: Play several rounds in a row on the same device before you judge a result; single rounds vary.

Cup 2: Odd One Out

Odd One Out, Hard: searching a grid calmly for the one thing that differs. Twelve rounds on grids from 5 × 5 to 7 × 7; differences: a turned symbol ×4, a mirrored symbol ×3, a ring with its gap moved ×2, a dot more or less ×2, a smaller symbol ×1.

Tip: For turns and mirrors, pick one feature of the symbol, like the foot of an L, and look only for where it points.

Cup 3: Ink & Word

Ink & Word, Medium: keeping your eye on the ink while the word pulls the other way. Forty-five seconds with 6 colours; the first card is the word ‘yellow’ in yellow ink.

Tip: Keep a finger hovering over the middle of the buttons so every colour is the same short move away.

Every cup in set #15 has a fixed seed, so anyone who opens this set gets the same patterns, trails, sums and waits. Your own ticks and results are kept only in this browser.

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