Getting to Round 20 in 67 Simon: What Actually Changes
What round 20 in Six Seven Simon really demands, from speed to memory load, and how to prepare for the run there.
· 3 min read · by the 67 team
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Most players can talk their way through the first ten rounds of Six Seven Simon without much trouble. Getting to round twenty is a different conversation entirely. By then you are not just remembering a longer list, you are remembering it while the game is actively speeding up underneath you. Here is exactly what changes and how to get ready for it.
The sequence is now genuinely long
By round twenty you are watching, then repeating, a twenty gesture sequence. That is five times longer than the round four sequence that felt easy on your first session. No memory technique makes twenty raw individual gestures comfortable to hold, which is exactly why technique matters more here than anywhere else in the game. If you have not already built a habit of chunking gestures into small pairs or saying them aloud as they flash, round twenty is not the place to start learning from scratch under pressure.
The flashes are noticeably faster
The gap between each gesture flashing shrinks as the sequence grows, down to a floor where it cannot get any tighter. By the time a sequence reaches twenty gestures, that gap is already close to its minimum, so the whole watch phase moves at a real clip. You do not get the luxury of a slow, deliberate flash for gesture number eighteen the way you did for gesture number two. Everything from here on plays at close to the game's fastest pace.
Lives feel more precious
You still only have three lives, same as round one. But a slip at round twenty costs you a full replay of a twenty gesture sequence, not a two gesture one. That is a much bigger tax on your attention and your patience. Practically, this means the value of playing careful over playing fast rises sharply the deeper you get. A rushed, sloppy tap that would have cost you nothing at round three can cost you several minutes of recovery at round twenty.
Your strategy needs to shift
Early rounds reward instinct. Round twenty rewards structure. A few adjustments that tend to help specifically at this stage:
- Lean harder into chunking gestures in pairs rather than trying to track them individually, since raw tracking simply cannot keep pace with a sequence this long.
- Trust your first read of a gesture rather than second guessing it mid tap, since hesitation costs time you do not have at this speed.
- Treat a life lost at round twenty as useful information, not a disaster. The replay is your best chance to actually study the sequence a second time, calmer than the first.
What a lost life at round twenty teaches you
When you miss and the game replays the same twenty gesture sequence, you get something you did not have the first time through: partial familiarity. You already know most of the sequence, so this replay is your chance to lock in whichever part actually tripped you up rather than watching the whole thing fresh again. Players who treat that replay as free practice, rather than pure frustration, tend to break through round twenty faster than players who just keep trying to brute force it on instinct alone.
Is round twenty actually the wall?
For a lot of players it is. It is roughly the point where sequence length, speed, and the shrinking margin for error all stack up at once. Getting past it usually is not about a single trick, it is about combining several already, chunking, verbal labeling, and a calmer tap rhythm, at the same time. If you have only been using one of those so far, round twenty is exactly where adding a second one tends to pay off.
Think you are ready to find out where your own wall sits? Play Six Seven Simon and see how far past round twenty you can push. Check the current top scores on the leaderboard to see what the best players are hitting, and if round twenty humbles you the first few times, that is normal, tell us about it in the chat.
