Remember the palette, not just the pattern.

Twenty-four original pattern challenges

This collection combines eight locally generated structures: checkerboards, concentric rings, flowing woven bands, diamond tessellations, radial pinwheels, pixel staircases, crossing lattices, and mixed-tile mosaics. Each design has its own palette and one named target color.

The artwork does not use coloring-book scans, stock patterns, franchise symbols, or remote image generators. Every composition is assembled from SVG rectangles, circles, paths, and polygons defined in the project. That makes the visuals lightweight, responsive, and safe to recolor live as the sliders move.

How pattern memory differs from color-by-number

Color-by-number tells you which color belongs in each region. This game briefly shows the answer and then removes only the target color. You already know where the target belongs because those regions turn neutral gray; the puzzle is deciding what hue, saturation, and lightness they originally had.

Repeated shapes can make the task easier by showing the target in several places, but surrounding colors can also change its appearance. A coral square beside gold may feel redder than the same coral beside violet. The reference remains numerically identical even when its context changes.

A three-pass strategy

1. Identify the broad hue family: warm, green, cyan-blue, violet, or pink.
2. Judge whether the color is muted, medium, or highly saturated.
3. Compare its lightness with the pattern’s background and accent color.

Rebuild those observations in that order. Hue usually gives the largest visual identity, but a lightness error can be especially obvious in checkerboards and mosaics where neighboring edges meet directly.

Pattern memory FAQ