Daily #2

Color Match

How well do you really know hex codes? Study today's color and guess its code by eye. You get six tries, with hotter/colder hints for each RGB channel after every guess. Everyone in the world gets the same color — a new one appears every day — and when you're done, practice mode keeps serving fresh ones.

🔥 -day streak 🏆 Best: -guess win played % win rate

Practice round — unlimited colors, same rules. Practice doesn’t affect your daily stats.

Your guess ( left)

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Today's color was #9b17de.

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Your statistics (this browser)

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Streak

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Wins by guess count

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How to play

Type a six-digit hex code for the color shown above. After each guess you'll see three channel hints — R↑ means the red channel needs to be higher, G↓ means green needs to be lower, and a check mark means that channel is within 8 of the target. The ΔE score is the real perceptual distance between your guess and the answer: you win when it drops to 2.3 or below, the point where two colors become visually indistinguishable.

A useful strategy: start from the hue family (is it more red, green, or blue?), then use the channel arrows to converge. Remember that hex pairs run 00–ff, so 80 is the midpoint of a channel, not 50.

To train your eye faster: the first digit of each pair does almost all the work — it places the channel on a 16-step scale, while the second digit only fine-tunes. So think #8_4_e_ (“red mid, green low, blue high → violet-purple”) before worrying about exact digits. Playing a few practice rounds a day builds the same intuition professionals use to read hex codes at a glance — and the score that judges you is the same Delta E distance the industry uses to measure color accuracy.

Frequently asked questions

Yes — the daily color is generated deterministically from the date, so every player worldwide sees the same target, and a new one appears at midnight.

A Delta E of 2.3 or less is a 'just noticeable difference' — at that distance your guess and the target are visually indistinguishable, so demanding the exact code would just be testing luck on the last digit, not color skill.

Each row is one guess, and the more cells are filled, the closer that guess was. Yellow rows are near misses; a fully green row means the guess was visually identical to the target. It shows your path to the answer without spoiling the color for others.

Entirely in your own browser's local storage — nothing is sent to any server, and there is no account. That also means stats don't follow you across devices, and clearing site data resets them.

The streak counts consecutive daily puzzles won, so skipping a day (or losing one) resets it to zero — your best streak is kept separately as a record.

No. Practice rounds are unlimited random colors under the same rules, but only the daily puzzle counts toward your played games, win rate, streak, and guess distribution.