Show HN: Colorfle – A daily color mixing game inspired by Wordle (colorfle.com)

Leaving the colors that did match with a black outline on the "keyboard" would work better if it showed me that it was yellow or green in addition to graying out.

Otherwise, it seems decently implemented. I'm not sure about the gameplay. I don't know if color matching is really as interesting as thinking of words. I don't know if that's just my personal interests or is more general.

This makes me naturally not want to play anymore. So my advice would be to think about how to handle someone like me and keep me interested… although maybe it’s just not for everyone.

I really like this game, it's very challenging.

The only part I still don't get, is the colour mixing additive or subtractive? I played assuming it was additive (because we're on a computer) but now that I read your comment in the OP I'm no longer sure.

Hard mode feels easier than normal mode, if only because it's easier to quickly rule out colors or just make random guesses until you match some of the right color.

Colorfle 4 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜

My average color accuracy was 90.6%!

Colorfle 4 (Hard mode) 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜

My average color accuracy was 84.2%!

In Wordle one uses the alphabet as an input (things we know) to make up words as an output (things we also know). Here one is using colors we don't intuitively know to make up equally unexpected color answers which are waaaay too specific to be fun. 99.7% correct, JFC are you kidding me?

To solve the issue with the input, one could use primary, secondary and maybe tertiary colors + black / white / and no more than 2-3 shades of gray to come up with colors.

And the issue with outputs would also benefit from a reduced solution space. Wordle has 5-letter words instead of 20-letter words for a reason.

The concept is OK, but the execution left a bit to be desired.

The name is great and the animation at the end was cool

I had trouble initially understanding that the idea was to match the color on the right half of the circle (in wordle the hidden secret is what I’m guessing, so I didn’t expect it to be shown)

The percent amount in the mix wasn’t obvious. Your UI and tutorial were helpful in hindsight but I still didn’t get it initially.

I struggled with the last box because the mix is so small it had little effect. This was definitely not fun!

The contrast of % text is hard to read.

A few ideas:

Consider if it might be more fun to have people guess HSL (a row of hue, a row of saturation, and a row of luminance in the “color keyboard”). This is easier to understand than percent mix and might teach people about color! As a bonus you could then hide the goal color as now the guesses would get closer organically

As a separate idea, consider using the web color names somehow. They are quite enjoyable and I could imagine them being fun if you found a way to use them.

Consider making it dark gray background instead of white (I found the lighter color a bit glaring)

Thanks for sharing!

X X X

X X X

Y X X

G G X

G G X

G G G

My average color accuracy was 91.8%!

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I didn't enjoy this, though that might be because I've never been strong on the creative side. I think a few things could've made it easier for me, though:

* having the color keyboard place the colors in a way where I can make intuitive guesses as to what changes I need to make to find the right colors. You can see my thought process a bit in the last few guesses for today's edition (#4), e.g going in one direction with one of the colors, seeing the percentage go down, and going in the other direction to compensate: https://i.imgur.com/Db1uVgZ.png (spoiler)

* Since it's not intuitive, some instruction around interpreting the % relative to the color keyboard would be helpful. For instance, if I get a pretty decently close percentage but none of my colors match, while I figured out it meant I should try some much different colors, it might not be super intuitive for the casual player.

That said, it might make for interesting mental training for people who like to paint on canvas. I just didn't enjoy it, and that's totally fine.

One thing I would request is a dark background mode. I had to turn off my dark mode extension to see the colors accurately, and the glaring white background is a little annoying.

Wordle will show the result until the next day on refresh, you may want to do that to.

It's an interesting concept, but I think it lacks the "I'm getting closer" feeling from wordle because the "color grammar" is not so straightforward, i.e. I get 6 combinations that were close to the end result starting from different inputs. Maybe restrict to rainbow colors and use more inputs?

This way you can think "I need more red" or something like that.

5% to 7% of the male population (and about 1% of the female population) has some form of color perception issue. If you are doing commercial games (or even UI in general), you need to know this or you're going to have a significant number of unhappy customers. It's usually not that hard to design around, and many modern games have pretty decent colorblind settings.

I'm not mad, just taking the opportunity to educate.

This public service message has been brought to you by the color Plaid.

And I absolutely love color blending or sorting games, like Blendoku or I Love Hue, so I'll definitely keep playing this game, unlike Wordle or its other clones.

Thanks for creating Colorfle! Please don't change too much.

Normal 6/6:

XXX

YXX

XGG

XGG

XGG

GGG

(Got stuck on getting the first one for the last one.)

Hard 5/6:

XXXX

YXXX

XYGY

XGGG

GGGG