🎮 Game · Level 1 · Inventions & Discoveries 🌐 한국어
Memory Palace
Find the treasure notes hidden around the palace, remember them, and connect everything you remembered to escape through the final vault. One round takes 3 to 5 minutes.
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Players in Korean and English share one board. Post your nickname after you escape. Each nickname shows its best time only.
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How to play
- Tap Enter the palace and you will be told where the first treasure is hidden.
- Tap a room to go inside. Tap things like the sofa, the kettle or the bookshelf to search them.
- Each note tells a story about an invention or discovery, and where the next treasure is. Once you close a note you cannot read it again, so remember it well.
- When you have found all 5 treasures, the vault in the center hall lights up. Open its three locks (order, person and story) to escape.
Your score is time taken + 10 seconds per mistake + 30 seconds per note you reread. The treasures and their hiding spots change every round, so try again to beat your best.
What is a memory palace?
It is a way of remembering things by placing each one somewhere in a place you know well, then walking through that place in your mind to pick them up again. It is also called the method of loci.
The idea is traced back to a story about the Greek poet Simonides. After a banquet hall collapsed, he identified the guests by remembering where each of them had been sitting. The Roman writer Cicero recorded the story.
Research backs it up. In a study published in Neuron in 2017, people with no memory training practiced the method for 30 minutes a day for 6 weeks. The number of words they remembered from a list of 72 rose from 26 to 62 on average, and the effect was still there four months later.
In this game you pin each note to a place, such as the kettle in the kitchen or the bookshelf in the study. When you stand at the vault asking yourself what the kettle note said, you are using a memory palace.
The inventions and discoveries in level 1
Contains the answers. Open it after you play
| Year | Invention or discovery | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 105 CE | 📜 Paper | Cai Lun |
| 1443 | ㅎ Hangul (Hunminjeongeum) | King Sejong the Great |
| 1610 | 🔭 Jupiter's moons | Galileo Galilei |
| 1769 | ⚙️ Steam engine | James Watt |
| 1796 | 💉 Vaccine (smallpox vaccination) | Edward Jenner |
| 1879 | 💡 Long-lasting light bulb | Thomas Edison |
| 1903 | ✈️ Airplane | The Wright brothers |
| 1928 | 🧫 Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
Sources
- Super-sized memory is trainable and long lasting (ScienceDaily, 2017, on the Dresler study)
- Cai Lun (Britannica)
- Hunminjeongeum (Korean History Net, National Institute of Korean History, in Korean)
- Jupiter Moons: first observed by Galileo in 1610 (NASA Science)
- James Watt and the separate condenser (Science Museum)
- A Brief History of Vaccination (WHO)
- Thomas Edison's Lightbulb (The Franklin Institute)
- 1903 Wright Flyer (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
- Discovery and Development of Penicillin (American Chemical Society)