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Picture Order shows a series of images and asks you to put them back in the order they appeared. Order memory and item memory are different things — you can be certain you saw all six pictures and still have no idea which came third.
Images are shown one at a time in sequence.
They are then presented shuffled.
Arrange them back into the original order.
Correct orderings add more images.
Your score is the longest sequence ordered correctly.
Temporal order memory — remembering when, not just what. It is a separate component of episodic memory and it decays faster than item memory does.
Build a story linking the images in order. Narrative encodes order far better than rehearsal does.
Anchor the first and last images hard. They are the easiest to hold and they constrain everything between.
Count as you watch — 'that's number three' — attaching a position label to each image as it appears.
Place the images you are certain of first, then fill the gaps.
Item memory and order memory are supported differently, and order information is more fragile. Recognising all six pictures is routine; sequencing them is not.
It is one of the oldest and best-evidenced mnemonic techniques, and it works particularly well for order.
Sequence Recall uses abstract stimuli; pictures are far more meaningful, which makes storytelling possible.
Place those and fill the rest by elimination. Partial certainty is worth using.