Ticket (Number & Shape) Game Practice

Arctic Shores' Ticket task, as candidates describe it, shows two boxes, one above the other. Each round a shape with a digit inside appears in one of them. In the top box you answer about the number — is it even? In the bottom box you answer about the shape — does it have round edges? Yes or No, on Q and P, about eighty rounds, quickly. It is a task-switching test: the box tells you which rule applies, and the cost is the moment it changes.

How this practice version works. Eighty rounds, half in each box, in random order. The time to answer shrinks from 1.5 to 0.9 seconds; too slow counts as wrong. As in a recording of the real task, the reminder shows only next to the box in use and disappears after about thirty tickets, and each answer gets a tick or a cross. Score: 70% accuracy, 30% speed of your correct answers, and the result shows your switch cost — how much slower you are right after the box changes.

What helps: let the box decide the question before you look at the ticket — top means number, bottom means shape — and keep your fingers resting on Q and P.