Tyamka is on Instagram. What we post there, plus one puzzle to try here
· 3 min read · Tyamka team
Tyamka now has an Instagram account, @tyamka.app. Here is what the first nine posts cover, from the daily challenge to an odd one out puzzle, with one puzzle to solve and its answer at the end.
In this article
Tyamka has an Instagram account now, @tyamka.app. The first nine posts went up on October 5, 2026, so the shape of the feed is already clear. Every game picture in it is taken from the real game screen rather than drawn for the post. Below is what each kind of post does, and one puzzle from the feed to solve right here, with the answer at the bottom.
The feed is in Ukrainian
Tyamka is a Ukrainian project, and the Instagram account is written in Ukrainian. The games work in both languages, and a game board needs little translation, so the puzzles make sense even if you skip the captions.
Odd one out
Some posts are just a question and a board from one of the games. The first one came from Odd Shape, level 2. Here is the board.
One figure is not like the other eight. Find it and note its row and column. In the game you get one tap per round with a time limit, and a wrong tap costs one of your three lives. Here you can take as long as you like. Odd Shape is one of our focus games, where the job is to ignore everything that matches and catch the one thing that does not.
The daily challenge
Every day Tyamka picks one game and one level, the same for everyone who plays. The first post showed the real board for October 5, Target Sums on level 3, and asked how many numbers people removed on the first try. The daily challenge is free. If you want the method behind that game, see our sum puzzle strategy.
Where a game comes from
Several of our games follow tasks that psychologists described long ago. These posts say who described the task and when, what the player does, and link to the original paper. The first was the Stroop test. In 1935 John Ridley Stroop showed that naming the ink color of a word is slower when the word itself names a different color. The post shows the word for "red" printed in blue, so the right button is Blue. These posts make no promise that a game improves anything outside the game, and neither does this blog. The longer version is in the Stroop effect explained.
How a game works
One game, one board, the rule in a few sentences. Two of the first nine were like that. In Arrow Rule you follow a light arrow, but when the arrow is yellow with "Opposite" above it, you answer the other way, so a yellow arrow pointing right means tap left. In Two Piles the rule above each card is either by shape or by color, and the card goes to the pile that rule points to. Two Piles went out as the game of the week.
Numbers and the panorama
One post is only numbers, with the date they were counted on. As of October 5, 2026 Tyamka has five focus games, five logic games, three memory games, one reaction game and one word game, and a round lasts one to three minutes. The last three posts work as a set. In the profile grid they line up into one wide picture with the logo, a Schulte table in the middle and the line "15 short games".
What comes next
The introduction post in the feed says that each week brings a game of the week, a puzzle and the daily challenge. The games themselves are on this site and in Telegram, through the @tyamka_bot bot. How that works is covered in brain games in Telegram.
Answer to the puzzle
The odd figure is in row 2, column 1, the left one in the middle row. The other eight have a single narrow stem at the bottom. This one has the whole bottom row filled, so it reads more like a step than a T. On level 2 the difference is meant to be easy to see. On later levels the grid grows up to 7 by 7, the figures come in two kinds, and the odd one takes one feature from each.