Last updated: July 10, 2026
Palate is a free daily game about a sense almost nobody trains: taste memory. Each day, every player in the world gets the same five foods and one challenge — reconstruct each food's flavor profile from memory, by setting sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami on a scale of 0 to 10. Your profile is scored against a benchmark, and the gap between what you remembered and what the food actually tastes like becomes your score.
Games like Wordle proved people love a shared daily puzzle, and color-memory games proved something more specific: people are fascinated by discovering that a sense they use constantly is far less precise than they assumed. Vision and hearing had their games. Taste didn't — mostly because a screen can't produce flavor.
Palate's answer is to test the memory of taste rather than taste itself. You have eaten ketchup hundreds of times; Palate asks whether you actually know how sour it is. That question turns out to be surprisingly hard, occasionally humbling, and very fun to argue about.
Every food in Palate carries a curated "chef's baseline" — a five-axis taste profile assembled from culinary references and food-science descriptions of the five basic tastes. Your guess is compared against the baseline axis by axis, and the average miss is converted to a 0–10 round score on a curve that rewards precision. Five rounds make a daily total out of 50, with verdicts ranging from "Do You Taste?" to "Supertaster."
Taste is partly subjective, and the baseline is honest about being equal parts science and opinion. If you think we're wrong about how bitter grapefruit is, that disagreement is half the game — share your scorecard and settle it.
Palate is an independent, one-person project — no studio, no publisher. It's a single lightweight web page that runs entirely in your browser: no account, no download, no signup. Scores, streaks, and preferences are stored locally on your own device (see the privacy policy for details). The game is updated regularly with new foods, features, and fixes.
Feedback, food suggestions, baseline disputes, and bug reports are all welcome: