Free Memory Games

Free online memory games to improve your memory and train your brain. Race other players in real time on Memory League, or play a brain game on your own. For adults, kids, and seniors, no download required.

New to memory games? Read about the types of memory games and what each one trains.

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Brain Games

Memory

Sequences Level: Easy

Halloween Drift

Nine carved pumpkins glow one after another on an autumn night. Tap them back in order, and follow them as they float to new places between levels.

Pairs Level: Easy–Hard

Matching Games

Flip the cards and find the pairs, with themes like piano composers, hard words and musical instruments.

Working memory Level: Easy–Hard

Memordle

A daily five-letter word to find in six guesses, where each guess's colours fade after three seconds, so you play from memory.

Working memory Level: Hard

Memodoku

Fill a 4 by 4, 6 by 6 or 9 by 9 number grid from memory: the starting numbers show for a few seconds, then hide.

Geography Level: Medium

Capital Cannon

Meteors carry country names. Fire the rocket from the chamber that holds the right capital.

Bird songs Level: Easy

Dawn Chorus

A bird sings at daybreak. Tap the singer on the branch, and learn the phrase birders use to remember its song.

US presidents Level: Medium

US Presidents Memory Game

Meteors carry the presidents' names. Fire the rocket from the chamber that holds the right number.

Languages Level: Easy

Vocab Cannon

Foreign words drift down. A wrong shot shows a keyword mnemonic for the word.

The three rock types Level: Easy

Rock Cycle Sorter

Rocks ride a conveyor out of the quarry. Sort each one into its bin: igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic.

Working memory Level: Easy–Hard

Rungs

Climb a word ladder one letter at a time, from clues that show for a few seconds, then fade.

Chemistry Level: Easy–Hard

Periodic Panic

Blast falling element tiles by typing their atomic numbers.

Geology Level: Medium

Mohs Ladder

Build the Mohs hardness scale from memory, then say which of two minerals scratches the other.

Poetry Level: Medium

Poem Climber

Every ledge is a word, and only the next word of the poem holds your weight.

Constellations Level: Easy–Hard

Star Charts

Comets carry the star patterns of the constellations. Fire the rocket from the chamber that holds the right name.

Geologic time Level: Medium

Deep Time Elevator

Ride a lift down through the rock and name each geologic period from the fossil on its floor.

History Level: Medium

Chrono Drop

Drop falling event cards into the right gap on a timeline of history.

Birds in flight Level: Hard

Silhouette Spotter

Birds cross a dusk sky as dark shapes. Catch one in your binoculars and name its kind from its outline before the light goes.

Visual memory Level: Medium

Vault Heist

Study a museum room, then spot what changed while the lights were out.

Visual memory Level: Easy–Hard

Crowns

Place one crown in every row, column and coloured region, then keep going once the colours fade.

Memory palace Level: Easy–Hard

Palace Run

Leave something to remember at each landmark, then pick it back out on the second lap.

Plant families Level: Medium

Key Runner

Run a botanist's key: pick Yes or No before each fork of the path, and reach each plant's family.

Method of loci Level: Easy–Hard

Waypoints

Draw one line through every square, calling at the numbered waypoints in order after the numbers hide.

Working memory Level: Easy–Hard

Echo Invaders

Shoot an invader only if its letter matches the one a set number of turns ago.

Recognition memory Level: Easy

Déjà Vu

Sea mines sink with pictures on them. Shoot only the ones whose picture has come before.

Working memory Level: Easy–Hard

Color Span

Hold a growing row of colors in mind and tap it back in order.

Memory span Level: Easy–Hard

Dice Span

Look at a roll of dice before cups cover them, then tap the faces back in order.

Visual memory Level: Easy–Hard

Memory Grid

Some squares of a grid light up for a few seconds. Tap them back from memory, from a 3 by 3 grid up to 25 by 25.

Sequences Level: Easy

Pentagon Ring

Ten pads round a dial light up one after another. Tap them back in order while the ring turns between levels.

Sequences Level: Easy

Sequence Squares

Fifteen squares light up one after another. Tap them back in order as the sequence grows by one each level.

Sequences Level: Easy

Jelly Drift

Nine jellyfish glow one after another in the deep. Tap them back in order, and follow them as the current moves them between levels.

Sequences Level: Easy

Growing Ring

Squares round a ring light up one after another. Tap them back in order as the ring grows from 4 squares to 14.

Bird identification Level: Medium

Lookalikes

Find the one mark that tells two look-alike birds apart, then name single birds by it.

Sequences Level: Easy

Melody Lock

Play back a tune that grows by one note each round.

Feeder birds Level: Medium

Feeder Watch

Birds land at a winter feeder for a moment and fly off. When the feeder is empty, say which kinds came and how many of each.

Working memory Level: Easy–Hard

Equinox

Balance full and new moons on a 6 by 6 grid, from signs that show for a few seconds, then fade.

Routes Level: Medium

Metro Memory

Study a route across a metro map, then ride it after the lines have faded.

Plant families Level: Hard

Plantordle

A plant puzzle: find the hidden flower family from its petals, symmetry, leaves, ovary and fruit.

Memory span Level: Medium

Radio Defense

Hear grid coordinates read out, then tap the cells in order after the radar goes dark.

Morse code Level: Easy–Hard

Dot Dash

Probes beep their letters in Morse code. Send back the right letter before they land.

Card counting Level: Easy–Hard

Running Count

Keep the Hi-Lo running count in your head as cards slide out of a six-deck shoe.

Mineral identification Level: Easy–Hard

Mineral Detective

A mineral case notebook: clues come one at a time, and the sooner you name the mineral, the more it scores.

Pi Level: Easy–Hard

Pi Runner

Run up a three-lane track and change lanes to pass through the gate with the next digit of pi.

Binary Level: Easy–Hard

Binary Barrage

Read each invader's binary number, from 3 to 8 bits, and type it in decimal to shoot it down.

Major System Level: Easy–Medium

Major System Blaster

Saucers carry words. Turn each word into its Major System number and type it to shoot the saucer down.

Chess Level: Hard

Blindfold Knight

Study a chessboard for a moment, then hop your knight to the target without landing where a hidden piece attacks.

Spatial memory Level: Easy

Minefield Run

See the mines for a moment, then walk a robot to the exit across the dark field from memory.

Lists Level: Easy

Errand Driver

Learn a shopping list in ten seconds, then drive round a town at night and pull into the shop that sells each item.

Mental math

Prime factors Level: Easy–Hard

Prime Factor Cannon

Shoot down falling rocks by loading the prime factors of their numbers.

Mental calculation Level: Easy–Hard

Reckon

Make the target number from a handful of tiles with + − × ÷, while every result you make turns face down.

Digit memory Level: Medium

Launch Codes

Memorize a launch code, then fire the answers to the saucers that ask about its digits.

Making change Level: Easy–Medium

Cashier Rush

Work out each customer's change and build it from coins and notes before the queue loses patience.

Square roots Level: Easy–Hard

Root Sniper

Estimate square and cube roots to one decimal before the timer runs out.

Mental arithmetic Level: Easy–Hard

Floor Plan

Divide a floor into rectangular rooms. Every clue is a small sum, and its answer is the room's size.

Number sense Level: Medium

Number Lander

Steer a probe down to the Moon and land it where a fraction, a root or a percentage sits on the number line.

Calendar Level: Easy–Hard

Doomsday Defense

Meteors carry dates. Work out the day of the week and fire the rocket from that day's chamber.

Number bonds Level: Easy

Sum Stack

Steer falling digit blocks into a well so touching blocks add to 10, and set up chains as the blocks above fall in.

Prime factors Level: Medium

Divisor Defense

Build prime towers beside a winding road. Each hit divides an enemy's number, and it pops at 1.

More games

Level: Easy–Hard

Random Symbols

Study a 5 × 5 or 10 × 10 grid of symbols, then rebuild it from memory.

Level: Easy–Hard

Guess Pi Digits

Name the digit at a position, or continue a run from anywhere in the first 70,000 decimal places.

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Memory League Matches

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Game Details

The free memory games on Memory League.

For more games and tools, see also the memory training page.