diff --git a/game.py b/game.py
index 963c6cc..0e45b1a 100644
--- a/game.py
+++ b/game.py
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ class Game(gameUtils.Game):
         self.timerStart = 0
         # Holds how much time the user has in total (not updated)
         self.timerLength = 0
+        # Used for animating the red flash on the current character if the users enters it wrong.
+        self.lastWrong = 0
 
         self.fonts = []
         self.Drawsurface  = Image.new("RGB",(800,220),(255,255,255))
@@ -184,6 +186,8 @@ class Game(gameUtils.Game):
 
             elif event.unicode != '' and event.unicode in alphabet:
                 correct, finished = self.currentCaptcha.match(event.unicode)
+                if not correct:
+                    self.lastWrong = time.perf_counter()
                 print(correct)
                 if finished:
                     self.createCaptcha()
@@ -194,7 +198,9 @@ class Game(gameUtils.Game):
         game logic that should be ran once per frame in here.
         """
 
-        self.surf.fill((0, 0, 0))                                       #sets the background colour
+        r = 1 - min(time.perf_counter() - self.lastWrong, 1)
+
+        self.surf.fill((r * 255, 0, 0))                                      #sets the background colour
         self.surf.blit(gameUtils.centre(self.currentCaptchaImg, self.size))  #draws the text to center of the screen
                                                                         #TODO: actually scale the text, however, more work needs to be done on the actual function of the game first