Cognitive Skill · Working Memory
Working Memory Games for Adults: Recall and Updating Tasks
These browser games ask you to keep information available for a short task: continue a number pattern, update a hidden total or transform a code that is no longer visible. Each score belongs to that game and its rules.
What Do These Working Memory Games Ask You to Do?
In these tasks, working memory means keeping task-relevant information available briefly and, in some games, updating it when a new step appears.
Practice can make a particular game's rules and strategies more familiar. Compare several sessions under similar conditions and treat improvement as task-specific; a higher score does not by itself establish broader memory or everyday-life change.
Working Memory Games on Altamens
Each game uses a different task. Read the description to see what you will do, then compare several sessions under similar conditions.
Number Stairs
Complete the sequence
Read a number pattern and choose the next value before time runs out. Later levels use longer sequences and less obvious steps.
Play Number Stairs →Equation Forge
Build the target
Combine four visible number tiles with +, −, × and ÷ to reach the target exactly. This is a planning puzzle rather than a hidden-recall task.
Play Equation Forge →Ghost Train
Track the hidden total
Update a passenger total as people board and leave; the updates disappear before you answer. Later stations introduce two carriages tracked separately.
Play Ghost Train →Code Shift
Transform the code in your head
Memorise a code that disappears, apply swaps, additions, removals or reversals, then enter the transformed result.
Play Code Shift →Signal Switch
Hold the rule, read the stream
Keep a hidden signal-to-operation mapping in mind, then rewrite one rule on command mid-stream. Memory plus task switching, with noise signals you have to ignore.
Play Signal Switch →Number Pyramid
Every brick is the two below
No clock at all — scan a half-finished wall for the one brick the givens make reachable, and hold each partial total while you work out the next.
Play Number Pyramid →What These Games Ask You to Practise
Recall a short number sequence
Update a running total after each change
Apply transformations to a hidden code
Keep track of two labelled totals
Plan with visible numbers and operators
Compare repeat sessions under similar conditions
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Number Stairs shows a number pattern and asks you to choose the next value before time runs out. The patterns become longer and less obvious as levels rise.
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