How to play Color
Color is a memory game with no timer. You study up to five numbered colors, they are hidden, and you rebuild each one from memory with three sliders: hue, saturation and lightness. Every color is scored out of 100 on how close it looks to the original, and your round score is the average.
How to play
- Pick Daily or Practice. Practice is a fresh random set whenever you like, with one to five colors of your choice, and it never touches your streak.
- The Daily is the same for every player on the same number of colors, and from October 15, 2026 it is always five colors, so Daily scores compare like for like. A finished Daily counts towards your streak, whatever your score. It cannot be replayed, and once you hide its colors they stay hidden, even if you reload.
- Study the numbered colors on screen. There is no timer, so take as long as you need, then press Hide & recreate.
- The colors disappear. For each number, move the three sliders until your color matches the one you remember: hue picks the color itself, saturation how vivid it is, and lightness how light or dark. Press Submit when you are done.
- Each color is scored out of 100 on how close it looks to the original, not on how close the slider numbers are, and it gets a word too: very close, close, off or far. Your round score is the average, and the results show your color beside the target.
- Share your result if you like. It is only your score and a row of squares showing how close each color was, never the colors themselves.
Tips & strategy
- Name each color as you study it and note whether it is light or dark, such as dusty orange, fairly light. A few words are easier to hold than a shade.
- Compare the colors with each other as well as with your memory: this one is warmer, that one is darker, these two sit close together on the color wheel.
- Set hue first, because it decides which color family you are in, then saturation, then lightness. Every color starts at the same setting, so nothing is hinted: check all three sliders for each one.
- Give every color your best guess. Each is scored on its own and the round is the average, so a miss on one does not change the others.
- Use Practice to build up: start with one or two colors and add more as your matches move from off to close to very close.
Accessibility
The game is about matching colors, but its feedback is never color alone: each color has a number, each slider shows its value (hue in degrees, saturation and lightness in percent), and each result is written as a word and a score out of 100. The sliders are standard range controls, so the arrow keys work.