DidUSeeIt? Flash Memory Game

This one started as a joke. I had a folder of weird AI-generated images that didn't really work for anything else (a hippo at a bus stop, a robot wearing a sombrero, that kind of thing), and Jacob kept asking me to flash them on the screen and quiz him. "What was that?!" he'd shout, and most of the time he got it right, even when the image was up for less than half a second. So I took the game we were already playing on the couch and turned it into something the rest of the internet could play too.

Once you start playing, the trick is to not stare at the centre of the screen. Your peripheral vision is surprisingly good at handling flashed images, and a soft-focus look across the whole picture gets you the gist faster than trying to lock onto one detail. The question is "what is the scene?", not "what colour was the third object?", and the multiple-choice options are written that way. If you keep missing, lean back from the screen a foot or two. It helps.

Why the images look strange

Every image in the pool was generated by an image model and then filtered by hand for clarity. We threw out anything too ambiguous, because a blurry blob isn't a fair flash, and anything accidentally horrifying, which happens with these models more often than you'd think. What's left is a deck where every picture is recognisable but a little off. That's harder than it sounds when you only get 400ms to look at it.