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What the Hex? Guess the color.
- petercooper 16y agoA timer would be interesting on this to make it into a real "game." Almost anyone with knowledge of color and hex color notation can work these out eventually.. the skill, I'm thinking, is in doing it quickly - a bit like reading sheet music. That said, the 48 edition is crazy. If you can get a few in a row on that, hats off to you.
- aidenn0 16y agoI can get it in 2 picks on the 48 without doing too much tinking most of the time. Once I got unluckly with 3 that I couldn't tell apart without juxtaposing them though :(
- anthonyb 16y agoI managed to freak out my wife by one-shotting four or five of the 48 puzzles in a row. She's a web designer :)
- kevinh 16y agoYou can generally get them by saying, okay, predominantly red and blue, and is more light than dark. Some color distributions are very difficult though. I can generally get 4 out of every 5 in the 48 difficulty.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoI hate timed games. Won't buy them. This is a game as it is. Of course it could have modes to please everybody.
- petercooper 16y agoI don't like timed games much either but in the lower levels and with no time (or time-like) restrictions this seems like a puzzle rather than a "game" to me. That is, where a puzzle is something that can be "solved" without a time dependency. If I asked you to do 834 + 277 with no time limit, that's a puzzle. If you had to get as close as possible in 5 seconds, that's a game. Thanks for making me think about this though, I could well be wrong, but that's the difference as I see it.
- alanmeyer 16y agoError 500 - Internal server error An internal server error has occured! Please try again later.
- faramarz 16y agoNice! Any plans under all this coolness? FYI flickr started out like this, except with random untagged images. Catherina is doing it again with Hunch. I'm curious is this is bait for something bigger :P
- dasil003 16y agoI thought flickr started with game neverending?
- faramarz 16y agoNeverending was a competely different thing, which they scrapped to start flickr. Maybe it had some influence? but as far as I remember, flickr was just a page with a single image loading at a time and users would type in a field to correctly tag it. Like how captcha works today. Bradley Horowitz explained it well in a conference.
- dasil003 16y agoI thought it was based on photo sharing within the game itself...
- ephramzerb 16y agoThere's an Android port too. http://www.craig-russell.co.uk/android-game-what-the-hex/ http://www.craig-russell.co.uk/android-game-what-the-hex/
- RevRal 16y agoWith no knowledge of how hex colors work, I'm going to see how long it takes to figure it out by playing this.
- spectre 16y agoLet us know how you get on I'd be interested to know how naturally intuitive hex colours are.
- NathanKP 16y agoHere are some tips: the first two numbers/letters stand for red, the second two stand for green, and the last two stand for blue. In hex, A is 10, B is 11, and so on, up to F is 15. One non-intuitive thing to keep in mind is that with light yellow is made by mixing red and green. Edit: Fixed my mistake, at first I said F was 16.
- kijinbear 16y agoF = 15
- NathanKP 16y agoGood catch. Thanks.
- RevRal 16y agoThanks. I basically have this figured out, didn't see your comment until after. The first hint was when Fs popped up in the first digit, which would make the color pretty red, so I thought F might mean "red". Red is the last color on the color spectrum and it was the highest letter that ever appeared. So my first hypotheses was that every successive digit modified the previous digit, adding an amount of a certain color. But that didn't make sense because I knew FFFFFF was white. If my hypotheses were true, then it would be red. I realized right there that I'm adding at least three different colors together. How did I realize this? You add colors to make white. From there I was looking at splitting the hex color into different pieces, and if each piece is at its highest intensity then you will have white (FFFFFF). F being the "highest" influencer of a color. I knew the first to be red. I clicked a bunch, taking note of where the Fs popped up and the color. I was thrown off by second "digit" Fs. After figuring out which digits didn't influence the color much, I basically had it. It wasn't hard to figure out. I'd like to know how long it takes someone who doesn't know that hex is sixteen. Note: This really only took me about ten minutes.
- joubert 16y agoIt would be nice if it the game also did HSB, which I think is a more natural way to work with color.
- TrevorBurnham 16y agoReally? What's the natural meaning of the hue number?
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoPresumably hue has a non-linear correspondence with frequency?
- joubert 16y agoHue is the angular dimension in the cylindrical color geometry. It starts with the primary color red at 0deg, moving through the primary color green at 120deg, and through the blue primary at 240deg before finally wrapping back to red at 360deg. The cylindrical color geometry is easy to visualize in one's mind. For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_color_space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_color_space
- hugh3 16y agoBut surely both the location of the "zero" hue and the directionality of where it goes from there are both arbitrary? I didn't know red was 00 until you mentioned it.
- dRother 16y agoIt makes sense in terms of physics. Start at 0, red, the beginning of the visible spectrum, and the number increases along with the wavelength, all the way through violet, the other end of the visible spectrum.
- Robin_Message 16y agoSadly, after hue goes through violet, it then disappears into magenta, which isn't in fact a colour on the spectrum at all, before arriving back at red when it reaches 1.
- csmeder 16y agoSome are easy, just look for the green or red block, but on level 48, this #70eb7e color is hard. Any with simular values for the RGB, it gets much more difficult.
- niekmaas 16y agoI couldn't resist to try but by using Firebug it is easy to solve all of them in one go. Just inspect the <li> items and Firebug will tell the color... Bit lame, but this is hackernews.
- chrisdone 16y agoYou're only cheating yourself!
- TrevorBurnham 16y agoBrilliant game. Just perfect for the iPad, with its touch interface and excellent color accuracy.
- j15e 16y agoI just love it
- ynd 16y agogay
- jgg 16y agoI have never known a webpage to have a sexual preference.
- arnorhs 16y agoI love this thing. I enjoy guessing colors in my CSS anyways, so this is a natural <strike>addition</strike> addiction. Suggestions: - Add a timer - Add total scoring - Allow "new game" to happen without a new request - Make the wrongfully selected color still be there but x-it out or something so you can keep it as reference - Hex numbers in uppercase and preferably in a mono spaced font Please :)
- moolave 16y agoThen share with friends and create a multi-player platform. =)