Colorcube: This game teaches clean sheet visualization

Set-up your focus to think in blank spaces and color.

When we are hustling throughout the day, we may lose the focus we need in order to tackle the next task or breakthrough the next problem. On your next break, consider this iOS puzzler, Colorcube. It is a simply elegant,  colorful, and relaxing game. This games takes the concept of the “clean sheet” and gives us a small purpose: use the shapes and colors to make the desired design.

Often, that is exactly what are jobs are asking us to do. The Clean Sheet task asks: “How would we do this starting from a blank pages, knowing what we have and what we can do?”

The rules of this Game make sense to your eyes

In Colorcube, two primary colors will combine for a secondary color, three primary colors create white space. It does not make scientific sense, but it makes a great visual style. Sometimes the trick is NOT to put something there, and sometimes the trick is, put a LOT of something there.

Work is much like that. We are in a constant battle to decide where and how much of our effort is needed.

• Do we need to avoid work in this area?

OR

• Do we need to actively keep work out of this area?

Avoiding extra work seems easy to do, and it requires a focus on the correct task.

Sometimes avoiding work is very difficult, and the real thing we must do is to put a lot of effort into an area (create a process or system) to keep ourselves from being distracted (see a previous post about the whirlwind).

Win by activating your unconscious visualization

The game is challenging and rather relaxing. Many times I don’t do anything. I look at the blank screen and I consider the design.

• What IS there?
• What IS NOT there?
• Where are my PRIMARY colors, where are my SECONDARY colors.

I use this game with the Breathe app on Apple Watch. Once, I solved 3 puzzles in 3 minutes with under 70 beats per minute heart rate.

Rule book

Colorcube, Developer Site

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