Good job! That’s really good! Oh damn I didn’t realised it was you!

Dear HN community, susam built the GuessMyRGB game which was a huge inspiration for this game. Please take the time to play it!!

https://susam.net/myrgb.html

I’d say this is firmly about knowing how colour mixing works, and not about memorising.

I got 14/20 on my first try just by knowing how the color mixing works. A few simple rules:

- Higher values mean brighter colors

- The closer the individual colors are to each other, the closer to "gray" it looks

- R + G = Yellow, R + B = Fuchsia, G + B = Teal

I doubt anyone has many of them truly memorized. It's more like having the ability to quickly see each hex character and understand roughly what percentage that is, then quickly visualize the resulting color. My methodology playing this is to just convert each hex character to high, medium, or low, so you end up with something like "high red, medium blue, low green."

4096 colors is not too much to memorize.

Just know them no. Able to sanity check that an RGB value is the color it's supposed to be yes sometimes. It's not the most useful skill because you almost always get a swatch now, but sometimes being able to have some idea of how it'll look (should it be dark or light, grey or intense color) saves me 10 seconds here and there.

I like playing guess-RGB games every now and then because it improves the skill, but at the same time I find them really stressful haha.

>I mean, I can work it out from first principles knowing how color mixing works

did you try it? if you can work it out from first principles because you know how color mixing works, you should get a perfect score; that's the game. If you don't get a perfect score, you need to reinspect what you think you know about color mixing and even the first principles.

I tried about 5 times and never got more than 3 right. It would be better if they started out a little easier and then increased the difficulty. Currently it seems random. At any time you might get three nearly identical green boxes and it’s game over.

Yeah that green tripped me up.

It's a shortened form of hex colors from CSS, but it does correspond to RGB since the first character of the hex value is the R, the second character is the G, and the third is the B. So for instance, a hex value from this game of #F18 means the red is F (out of F), the green is 1 (out of F), and the blue is 8 (out of F).

This is hexadecimal notation for rgb. Each character represents 2 bytes, which encode a value from 0 to 255.

This is a bit more confusing because this is a shorthand notation: you’d actually need 2 hexadecimal characters for 2 bytes (eg #0077ff would be rbg(0, 127, 255)). In this shorthand notation, I think there’s an implied 0 (eg #07f is #0070f0).

So you can’t represent all rgb colour with only 3 characters, but for this use-case it’s fine.

In css you can use either of these 3 notations, for example

You're good. I made 0/20 on my first try.

I feel that way. Also there are many cases where I can eliminate two choices as obviously wrong but can’t tell the difference between two similar shades. I wouldn’t feel bad getting disqualified for a gross error but when it is two shades of bluish-green it doesn’t seem fair.

Another possibility is to give it more of a tournament feel where the early cases are easy and the last ones are hard so I get disqualified at 15/20 (webdev and photographer who does gfx programming for fun) but a real goldeneye could go further. 3/20 does not represent my skill.

that's not really what you want, what you want is for the starting of a new game to be automatic and not require extra clicks.

the way I'm suggesting (which is what the game is with extra clicks) is a game of "what's my longest streak of correct guesses" which actually makes your score look better than keeping your losses around.

Nardo: https://youtu.be/KchX52bIZSg