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

- 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 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.

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.

And then having a natural intuition for how the relative mixing of color values should look.

I’d say you could do pretty well if you took your time and thought analytically about it, but some people have just developed a strong intuition for it.

This would be much harder if there was a “none of the above” option.

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

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.

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.