I like it, but when you make your guess the mystery color should change to the color it describes, not to green or red. You should use some other aspect to indicate success - shape, motion, font, anything other than color. You already have it shaking for an incorrect guess, so that’s good.

Definitely don't make the game end dafter one wrong guess. At least give me some lives or something, damn. Or, better yet, just let me play to the end, then give me my score.

Odd, I only got one wrong, and it gave me a 10/20 score at the end. Is the scoring not 1-to-1?

edit: Oh, I see. Once you get one wrong the game ends immediately, but the score includes the full 20 rounds that you're supposed to get through.

Thank you for sharing!

However, you both ask about colors and use color for confirmation. This unfortunately is both confusing and makes a not nice overlap of one modality used for two things.

Quick solution: just use the correct color. Use other modality (e.g. shape V/X or text "Correct!" vs "Wrong!")

I worked with a guy once, and I was coding up the design of website from a PSD provided by the design team (yeah, that long ago). I was talking to him at my desk when I was doing the header and said something about needing to grab the hex for the red. This was a design he'd probably not seen before, and certainly never saw the PSD of. He called out the exact hex. That was one hell of a party trick.

I’m so confused. This is something people know? I mean, I can work it out from first principles knowing how color mixing works, but it sounds like people just … know them? I’ve been programming for almost 40 years and it would never have occurred to me to memorize this sort of thing.

First try: 16/20

https://imgur.com/a/c0yUOlw

Excellent game!

Couldn't get above 3 for numerous tries, after 5 minutes or so managed to get to 18! I learned a lot playing this (and reflected on things I already "knew" but never reflected on why). Thanks!

Got to number 15 and the color was #C61. My choices were #D52, #161, #C61, and #C63. Sadly, I guessed #C63 and lost.

Maybe there should be some minimum distance between all of the choices.

I was actually hoping for a completely different type of game. As someone who is colorblind, my use case for RGB is to translate a description of a color (e.g. fuchsia) to a hex value for display on screen. Matching a hex value to a swatch is just setting myself up for failure.

Off topic, but this seems like a decent place to ask:

Has anyone else noticed the weird new grey color that automobiles have in the last year or so? Does anyone know how to describe that color? Can anyone explain how it is different from previous greys in RGB terms? Or even in paint color terms?

Make sure to disable any dark mode extensions or the colors will not show up correctly.

Very fun game. Got 15/20. I think I'd do better at an HSL version.

It would be nice if this told you upfront how many questions there were - after sixteen with nothing changing I figured it was probably endless but apparently there are twenty?

Interesting that sometimes a washed out color will look darker than a pure color, even though there's more light overall.

Funny clicking that when my phone is in night modd, so black in greyscale.

haha this is such a cool and fun game.

Obligatory: what colour space?

Yes I know it's probably sRGB because that's ubiquitous on the web, but "RGB" technically is not a colour space.

Also interesting people talking about how they estimate the colours in their head - sRGB is not perceptually linear so if you're good at this game you've kinda reverse engineered the sRGB transform in your brain.

18/20, first try :)

ask urself that question?

a 3 letter hex color is an HTML CSS convenience abbreviation… it has nothing to do with EGB..

i as u, how many bits are in an RGB color?

Great, now we need a 12 bit BGR game for engineers on little endian systems ;)

> do you know rgb

> colours are in hex

am I missing something or being dumb?

I doubt anyone has many of them truly memorized. It's more like having the ability to quickly see each hex character and understand roughly what percentage that is, then quickly visualize the resulting color. My methodology playing this is to just convert each hex character to high, medium, or low, so you end up with something like "high red, medium blue, low green."

I got 14/20 on my first try just by knowing how the color mixing works. A few simple rules:

- Higher values mean brighter colors

- The closer the individual colors are to each other, the closer to "gray" it looks

- R + G = Yellow, R + B = Fuchsia, G + B = Teal

I’d say this is firmly about knowing how colour mixing works, and not about memorising.

Just know them no. Able to sanity check that an RGB value is the color it's supposed to be yes sometimes. It's not the most useful skill because you almost always get a swatch now, but sometimes being able to have some idea of how it'll look (should it be dark or light, grey or intense color) saves me 10 seconds here and there.

I like playing guess-RGB games every now and then because it improves the skill, but at the same time I find them really stressful haha.

More like being able to naturally parse the base 16 value without thinking about it, just like you can parse which of these numbers is bigger without thinking: 4 8

And then having a natural intuition for how the relative mixing of color values should look.

I’d say you could do pretty well if you took your time and thought analytically about it, but some people have just developed a strong intuition for it.

This would be much harder if there was a “none of the above” option.

>I mean, I can work it out from first principles knowing how color mixing works

did you try it? if you can work it out from first principles because you know how color mixing works, you should get a perfect score; that's the game. If you don't get a perfect score, you need to reinspect what you think you know about color mixing and even the first principles.

4096 colors is not too much to memorize.