Colorfle

The day's colour was made by blending three swatches from a palette of twenty, and your job is to work out which three and in what order. You submit a recipe rather than a word: three colours per row, six rows, with the slots weighted unevenly - the help panel's worked example splits the mix 50%, 30% and 20% - so order is part of the answer. Every submitted row is mixed for you and scored against the target, which makes this a game of colour judgement rather than of knowing anything.

1. Tap three swatches from the palette. Order is part of the answer - in the worked example the first slot is half the mix and the last a fifth of it.
2. Press Enter. Your three colours are blended, the row returns a colour-accuracy percentage, and the circle at the top holds your composition against the Colorfle.
3. Adjust and go again. Click any result circle to compare against a previous guess.

Almost every daily puzzle rewards something you know; this one rewards something you can see, and there is nothing to look up. Working out that a dusty olive is mostly yellow with a bite of navy and a little brown is a skill that improves with practice and transfers to nothing else, which is a strange and pleasant thing to spend a few minutes a day on. That makes it a good fit for people who work with colour or who like perceptual estimation, and a poor one for anyone who wants trivia. It is also, unavoidably, a poor fit for players with a colour vision deficiency: the target, the feedback highlights and the comparison circle are all encoded in hue, with no alternative signal offered. And with no archive, a day skipped is a day gone.

Two channels run at once. Per swatch, a green highlight means that colour is in the recipe and in the right slot, yellow means it belongs but sits in the wrong position, and a colour that is wrong is not highlighted at all. Per row, a circle gives the blended result as an accuracy percentage against the target and takes on the colour of that blend, which is the part that actually guides you: the number says how far off you are, and the split circle at the top says in which direction.

Daily

Three colours, six tries, one shared target, with a new Colorfle every day at 5PM your time.

Hard

The board's harder setting, selected with the NORMAL / HARD toggle above the palette.

Practice

A practice board, linked as (Practice Mode) under the toggle.

• A yellow highlight is an instruction to re-order, not to replace. Because the slots are weighted so unevenly, the same three swatches in a different sequence produce a genuinely different colour, and swapping one out at that point throws away information you already paid for.
• The percentage and the split circle answer different questions. The number tells you how far the blend is from the target; only the side-by-side circle tells you whether you are too warm, too dark or too grey. Two guesses can score within a point of each other while being wrong in opposite directions, and chasing the number alone is how people burn tries four and five.
• White and black sit in the palette alongside the hues. When the target looks washed out or muddy rather than colourful, the recipe is often two hues plus one of those two, and testing that early is cheaper than cycling through a third hue.