F**K THE GAME Brain Melt

How F***ed Is Your Brain?

A taste of FTG — the card game that weaponises the Stroop effect.

Say the INK colour of the swear word. Don't say the word itself.

3 practice rounds. 20 scored rounds. ~60 seconds. Like the real deck — screw up and you collect the cards.

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Click the button matching the INK COLOUR, not the word.
READY

How It Works

FTG is built on the Stroop effect — a cognitive glitch discovered by John Ridley Stroop in 1935. Your brain reads words faster than it identifies colours. When a swear word appears in the wrong colour ink, your brain screams the word while your eyes see the colour. That conflict is the entire game.

The real FTG deck: each card has a swear word in a conflicting colour. You draw, you yell the ink colour (not the word), and if you screw up or hesitate — the other players slap the deck and you collect the pile. First player to lose all their cards wins. Four rules, infinite chaos, one buzzer that hates you.

1. See the word

A colour name (RED, BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, PURPLE, ORANGE) appears in big text.

2. Ignore the letters

The text is printed in a DIFFERENT colour. Your job: identify the INK.

3. Tap fast

Hit the button matching the ink colour. Reaction time + accuracy = your score.

Brain FAQ

What is the Stroop effect?

A delay in reaction time when the meaning of a word conflicts with how it's presented. Reading "RED" in blue ink trips your brain because reading is automatic and colour-naming isn't.

What's a good reaction time?

Sober adults average 700–900ms on congruent trials and 900–1200ms on incongruent ones. Under 600ms with zero errors? Your brain is built different.

Why does FTG use this?

Because cognitive overload is funny. The FTG deck has 60 cards — each one a swear word in the wrong colour ink. Players draw, yell the colour (not the word), and slap the pile on mistakes. First to lose all cards wins — plus a buzzer that hates you.

Can I cheat?

Sure. Close one eye, squint, blur your vision. The test doesn't care. You're only fooling yourself.

You just played 30 seconds of FTG.

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