Continuum
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About PlayMemorize Continuum
Continuum is a semantic-gradient game. Two words mark the extremes of one intensity scale · freezing at one end, scorching at the other · and you slide a marker to where a third word, like warm, belongs between them.
How a round works. The two extreme words anchor a scale; one word from the same gradient appears to place. Drag the marker (or nudge it with the arrow keys) to its spot and check. You do not need to be pixel-perfect · you win when the marker lands nearer the target than to either neighbouring word, and the reveal shows the exact position and its honest tolerance band.
Why gradients matter. Most vocabulary knowledge is binary · you know a word or you don't. Gradient knowledge is finer: knowing that furious outranks angry, which outranks annoyed, is what lets you calibrate your own writing and read the temperature of someone else's. It is the difference between having synonyms and having a scale.
Fully localised. Every gradient is authored natively in all 25 supported languages, using words whose ordering is unambiguous in that language rather than literal translations.
Part of the PlayMemorize family of brain-training games. Runs entirely in your browser, works offline as a Progressive Web App.
FAQ
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What is Continuum?
A word-placement game. Two words mark the ends of one intensity scale · like cold and hot · and you slide a marker to where a third word belongs between them. You win by landing in the word's tolerance band, not on a single pixel. -
What does placing words train?
Gradient vocabulary · the sense of how far apart near-synonyms sit on a shared scale. It upgrades vocabulary from a set of words into a calibrated instrument for both reading and writing. -
What kinds of gradients appear?
Everyday scales · temperature, size, sound, wetness, brightness, frequency, quantity, age, certainty, distance-like scales such as puddle-to-ocean, anger and difficulty. -
Does it work in my language?
Yes · each gradient is authored natively per language with words whose ordering is clear in that language, not word-for-word translations. -
Does it get harder?
Yes · higher levels drop the guide markers and lean on gradients with closer neighbours, where the target band between two words is narrowest.