Dialed: Color
Free · play online in your browser, no download
See a color for a moment, then dial it back in from memory on hue, saturation and brightness sliders.
Official site dialed.gg, verified Nov 3, 2026. The developer's own Reddit posts link dialed.gg as the Color game; dialed.gg now opens a hub of the site's games, and the Color game's own page is dialed.gg/color (its canonical address). Beware of look-alike sites
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Runs in a desktop or mobile browser. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Dialed: Color
A free memory game in the browser. Dialed shows you a color for a few seconds, hides it, and asks you to recreate it on three sliders for hue, saturation and brightness; your pick is shown next to the original with a score out of 10, and a game of five colors is scored out of 50. There are Easy, Hard and Brutal difficulties, a daily challenge and multiplayer, either through a challenge link where everyone gets the same five colors or as a live round with a shared timer, plus leaderboards. Playing needs no account or download, on desktop or phone. The developer, who posts on Reddit as gteehan, says they had never written code before and asked Claude, through Cursor, to build the game: there was a working game six hours after the first prompt and a polished one after twelve, then a leaderboard database the next day and multiplayer two days later. In the developer's words, “Claude wrote essentially every line of code” while they prompted, reviewed and tested; the first version was a single file of about 8,000 lines of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Dialed: Color was the first game on dialed.gg, which now also hosts Sound, Time and four newer memory games; the developer says the site is run with their son and paid for by display ads. TidBITS and PC Gamer wrote about the game in February and April 2026. Free, with an optional paid Dialed+ subscription that removes ads.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn a post on r/ClaudeAI (7 May 2026, UTC) the developer writes: “3 months ago I'd never written code. I asked Claude (through Cursor) to build me a memory game.” The first prompt, which the developer added to the post, asked for a game that shows a color, gives the player sliders set to something random to recreate it, shows the two side by side and gives a score. The developer continues: “Claude wrote essentially every line of code. I prompted, reviewed, tested, and prompted again. I didn't read documentation. I didn't learn a framework.” The first version was about 8,000 lines of HTML, CSS and JavaScript in one file, including multiplayer, daily challenges, leaderboards and anti-cheat. The developer puts Cursor and Claude usage across the site at about $2K a month.
- Developerr/SideProject post introducing the game (19 Feb 2026): “First project using Cursor. No engineering background.” — Reddit (u/gteehan)
- Developerr/SideProject update (19 Apr 2026): calls it “a dumb color memory game I made with Cursor” and says each game was then one HTML file of about 9,000 lines, being rebuilt into a shared framework. — Reddit (u/gteehan)
Named by the developer as the model that wrote the code inside Cursor: “I asked Claude (through Cursor) to build me a memory game” and “Claude wrote essentially every line of code.” An update on r/SideProject (6 May 2026) says of all three games: “Cursor and Claude write the code; we don't always know what's in it.”
Prompt-driven development by a developer with no coding background, in Cursor with Claude. The first version was a single file of about 8,000 lines of HTML, CSS and JavaScript; a database with a leaderboard followed the next day and multiplayer two days later, with hosting on Vercel and Supabase. After the game spread, the developer describes adding server-side score validation, session integrity checks and a name filter for the leaderboard. In April 2026 the developer said the games were being rebuilt into a shared framework, and in May that the developer's son had moved new work to Next.js and TypeScript and that an engineer had been hired to rework the stack; the site is now served by Next.js. How much of the rebuilt code AI wrote is not stated. No AI runs in the game.
- Engine / framework
- None (vanilla JavaScript; site since rebuilt on Next.js)
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- About 6 hours to a working game, 12 hours to a polished oneDeveloper ReportedReddit (u/gteehan)
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“Claude wrote essentially every line of code. I prompted, reviewed, tested, and prompted again.”- Three browser games built with Claude (25M plays). Two of them are 8,000-line HTML files. (r/ClaudeAI)
- A dumb game I made to show how hard it is to recall colors. (r/SideProject)
- An update on the dumb color game I posted here 2 months ago (r/SideProject)
Verification notes: AI use from the developer's posts by u/gteehan on r/ClaudeAI (7 May 2026, 00:09 UTC) and r/SideProject (19 Feb, 19 Apr and 6 May 2026) and the developer's replies, read from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 8 Nov 2026. The posts link dialed.gg, dialed.gg/sound and dialed.gg/time. Game modes, difficulty levels and multiplayer from the game pages, the Dialed+ subscription from the site's terms and privacy pages, re-read on 8 Nov 2026. No share of AI-written code is given as a number, so none is recorded. Developer: the Reddit account gteehan, writing in the first person; no name is given on the site, whose terms refer only to “Dialed and its operators”. The developer says the site is run with their son, who runs it day to day and moved new work to Next.js, and in a reply (13 May 2026) that an engineer had been hired to rework the stack; team size is not recorded because it changed over time. TidBITS introduces the game's own description with “The designers at Lightspark write”; the developer's posts describe it as a personal side project, and we did not find a statement from Lightspark (see conflicts). Self-reported figures, not recorded as metrics: 540K plays in the first week; about 15M plays across two games and about 9K concurrent players on 19 Apr 2026; 25M plays across three games and 200K daily players on 7 May 2026; spikes of 15,000 concurrent players and 875K daily plays; ad revenue of “low 5 figures” a month. These cover the whole site, not this game alone. The release date is not stated; the first posts are from 19 Feb 2026. The developer names copycat sites, listed under site relations. A FlowingData post (24 Feb 2026) could not be opened from the research environment and is not used. App Store apps with similar names (for example “dialed.gg +”, seller Richard Secrest) are not linked from dialed.gg and are not this game. The game was not played.
Reported popularity
Popularity labels are only shown with a source. Press reports describe attention; they are not player counts.
- Trending
TidBITS recommended Dialed as a game that tests your color memory, describing the five-color rounds scored out of 50 and the multiplayer link.
- Trending
PC Gamer featured dialed.gg as a simple color game, describing its rounds, scores and harder difficulty.
Trending: Rising attention: a documented press report, or a high trend score from observed signals (sample values in this prototype).
Development history
The developer shares the game on r/SideProject as a first project made with Cursor; it later says the game had 540K plays in its first week.
The developer reports about 15M plays across Color and the new sister game Sound, and coverage by The Verge, kottke.org and FlowingData.
DeveloperReddit (u/gteehan)The developer writes on r/ClaudeAI that Claude, through Cursor, wrote essentially every line of the game's code.
DeveloperReddit (u/gteehan)
Game performance
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Browser (official site)
Free in desktop and phone browsers with no account or download. The site is ad-supported; Dialed+ is an optional paid subscription, billed monthly or yearly, that removes ads and unlocks extra stats and features.
No public metrics recorded for this listing.
Not publicly available: Concurrent players (site), Monthly revenue, Gross revenue.
Sales & revenue (all platforms)
Browser game — there are no downloads to count.
Reviews & rankings
Not yet reviewed by our editors.
Official site and look-alikes
Several similarly named websites exist. We keep one canonical record for the game at its official site and do not merge other sites into it: their versions, traffic or popularity claims are never attributed to this game.
| Domain | Relationship | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| dialedgg.com | Not affiliated (per developer) | Named by the developer as one of at least six copycat sites; not connected with dialed.gg. (Reddit (u/gteehan)) |
| dialedsound.com | Not affiliated (per developer) | Named by the developer as a copycat site; not connected with dialed.gg. (Reddit (u/gteehan)) |
| kolormatch.io | Not affiliated (per developer) | Named by the developer as a copycat site; not connected with dialed.gg. (Reddit (u/gteehan)) |
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three browser games built with Claude (25M plays). Two of them are 8,000-line HTML files. (r/ClaudeAI) Reddit (u/gteehan) | Social post | May 7, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| A dumb game I made to show how hard it is to recall colors. (r/SideProject) Reddit (u/gteehan) | Social post | Feb 19, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| An update on the dumb color game I posted here 2 months ago. (r/SideProject) Reddit (u/gteehan) | Social post | Apr 19, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Color Game, How Well Can You Remember Colors? | Dialed dialed.gg | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Terms of Service | Dialed dialed.gg | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Dialed Game Tests Your Color Memory TidBITS (Adam Engst) | Press | Feb 20, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| 'Humans can't reliably recall colours': Dialed.gg is a simple colour game that made me realise I don't know what pink looks like PC Gamer (Elie Gould) | Press | Apr 8, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) gteehan (Dialed.gg) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
- Who made it
- TidBITS introduces the game's description with “The designers at Lightspark write”. The developer's Reddit posts describe Dialed as a side project the developer built and now runs with their son, and do not mention Lightspark. (TidBITS (Adam Engst), Reddit (u/gteehan))
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