pymetrics Games Practice: All 12 Games Plus the Four Reasoning Games

Practise every pymetrics-style game before your assessment, from Balloons and the Money Exchanges to Arrows, Tower and Faces, plus the Magnitudes, Sequences, Shapes and Letters games that some employers add. Each game is rebuilt from the published psychology task behind it, with original art, and ends with a review of how you played. These are independent practice simulations, not the real games, and Candidate Falcon is not affiliated with pymetrics or Harver.

Choose a game to practise

pymetrics belongs to Harver, so all 16 games come with the Harver platform: 1 Game Platform Prep when you choose Harver, All Games Platforms Prep and Full Access. See plans

The 12 core pymetrics games

Each game has a free guide on its page. Practice runs need a plan that includes Harver.

The four extra reasoning games

Some employers add numerical and logical games that, unlike the core games, have right answers.

How the pymetrics games work

Each paragraph says where its facts come from: Official is pymetrics’ patents and research or harver.com, Prep sites is unconfirmed, and Candidate Falcon is how our simulation works.

Official: pymetrics and HarverThe core set is 12 short games derived from published psychology studies, taking about 25 minutes in total, with no right or wrong answer. Your pattern of play is compared with people who do well in the job. Harver bought pymetrics in 2022 and says the games carried over unchanged.

Prep sitesPrep sites describe the screens, round counts and rewards, for example $0.05 per balloon pump, 80 card draws and about 14 faces. pymetrics does not publish them, so we label each one on the game’s page.

Candidate FalconOur games follow the research tasks (such as the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, the trust game, the Iowa Gambling Task and the Tower of London) with original art, and end with a review in our own words. Where a detail is not public, such as how often a balloon pops, the value is our own and the guide says so.

Candidate FalconPractice helps you know what each game asks before the real one, so you can play calmly and as yourself. It cannot reveal pymetrics’ model, and a Candidate Falcon review is not a pymetrics result. If your invitation also includes Harver tests, see the Harver practice modules.

pymetrics practice FAQ

What does Candidate Falcon’s pymetrics practice cover?

All 12 core pymetrics-style games (Balloons, Money Exchange 1 and 2, Keypresses, Digits, Hard or Easy, Stop, Cards, Arrows, Lengths, Tower and Faces) and the four numerical and logical games that some employers add (Magnitudes, Sequences, Shapes and Letters). Each game is rebuilt from the published psychology task it is based on, with original art and wording, and ends with a review of how you played.

Is there a right answer in the pymetrics games?

pymetrics says there is no right or wrong answer: the games measure traits such as risk tolerance, attention, effort, fairness and learning, and your pattern is compared with people who do well in the job. Some games still have correct responses, such as Digits or Stop, and the four extra reasoning games are scored on accuracy. Candidate Falcon’s review describes how you played in our own words; it is not pymetrics’ trait report.

How long do the pymetrics games take?

pymetrics’ candidate FAQ gives about 25 minutes for the 12 games, with each game lasting 1 to 3 minutes. You cannot pause in the middle of a game, but you can take breaks between games. Prep sites report about 30 to 35 minutes when the four extra games are added.

Are pymetrics and Harver the same?

Harver completed its acquisition of pymetrics in August 2022 and now sells the games as its gamified assessments. That is why Candidate Falcon includes pymetrics-style practice with the Harver platform in the games plans.

Which plan includes the pymetrics practice?

Every plan that includes Harver: 1 Game Platform Prep when you choose Harver, All Games Platforms Prep and Full Access. The game guides on each page are free to read.

Official sources, checked 24 October 2026: pymetrics patent WO2015200880A1, Wilson et al., FAccT 2021 (pymetrics co-authors), Harver gamified assessments.

Candidate Falcon is independent and not affiliated with pymetrics or Harver; the games, art and wording are original. For all 12 games, timing, results and retakes, read the free pymetrics test guide, and for how pymetrics fits into the Harver assessment, the Harver assessment guide.