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by kiru_io 551 days ago
Color names are a strange thing, it is like given names to numbers. I made a game out of it [0].

[0] https://colorguesser.com/

4 comments

> How is the score calculated? Oh man, this was harder than I thought.

Color is such a deceptively dangerous rabbit hole. A few months ago I entered a game jam intending to make a small pokemon-like where you collect colors rather than creatures. E.g. instead of fire>grass>water it would be red>green>blue, with randomly generated colors of any shade and about half a dozen 'types'. Trying to figure out the math of that nerd sniped me for a couple weeks, didn't even get started on the rest of the game before the jam ended.

I would love this with a limited, accurate color list. It would be a fun way to learn more obscure colors like chartreuse, ochre, and sienna. I'd particularly like to learn the colors that are likely to come up in literature (e.g., [0]). As it is, I got "Jaycey's Favorite" as one of the colors.

0. https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/141957

that was fun! It would be nice to show my colour next to the result to compare a little more.
Hah I played twice and did not meaningfully inprove my score. Even after seeing the color I could not match it up close enough, and the first time I got pretty close to most colors.