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Today's colour

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How to play Blendy

Blendy is a free daily paint-mixing colour puzzle. Everyone gets the same colour each day, shown in a big swatch, and a shelf of paints: red, yellow, blue, white and black, or a few of them. Add drops to the bowl until your mix matches.

How the puzzle works

Use + and − to add or take away drops of each paint, and watch your mix change beside today's colour. The paints mix like real paint, not like light: yellow and blue make green, red and white make pink, red and yellow make orange, and black darkens everything. Only the proportions matter, so 2 red and 2 yellow is the same colour as 1 and 1. When you're happy, press Submit. Each try shows how close you are as a percentage, and for every paint how many drops more or fewer it needs at your bowl's current size, or ✓ about right. If every paint says "about right" but you're not quite there, double everything: a bigger bowl lets you mix more finely. Submitting an empty bowl, or the same mix twice, never costs a try, and emptying the bowl is free.

Each day is Easy, Medium or Difficult, shown on the badge. About half of all days are easy: three paints on the shelf, two of them needed, and 92% closeness wins. About a third are medium: four paints, three needed, and you need 95%. Roughly one day in seven is difficult: all five paints, three or four needed, and you need 97%. Mondays are always easy, and difficult days mostly land at the weekend. Every colour is made from a real recipe of whole drops, so a perfect match is always possible.

Scoring and the helper

Match on your first try and you earn 12 points; each extra try knocks it down to 10, 8, 6, 4 and then 2. A sixth miss ends the day. Stuck? The helper reveals how much of one paint today's recipe uses (for example 2 drops of blue out of 7). It halves the day's score and is only available until your third miss. When the day ends you'll see the full recipe.

Streaks and badges

Your play streak counts the days in a row you've played, and your solved streak counts the days in a row you've solved the puzzle. Play seven days running and you earn a 7-point bonus, or 14 points if you solved all seven. Miss a day and the streaks start again. A new puzzle arrives every day at midnight UTC.

Accessibility (colour-blind friendly play)

You can win Blendy without judging colour at all. Every paint is labelled by name with its number of drops, and after each try the advice tells you exactly how many drops to add or take away. Following the numbers always gets there: every daily puzzle is tested to be solvable that way within six tries, starting from one drop of each paint. Turn on High contrast for larger labels and bolder outlines. The page itself is plain neutral grey so it doesn't tint the colours, and there's no clock.

Tips

Start with one drop of each paint, submit, then follow the arrows.

Pale colours need lots of white; deep colours may need a drop of black.

If everything says "about right", double every paint and fine-tune from there.

What Blendy trains

Colour mixing. Working out which paints to add and how much.

Estimation. Judging proportions by eye, like a painter does.

Using feedback. Each try tells you how close you are.

Did you know?

Painters traditionally learn red, yellow and blue as primary colours, while printers use cyan, magenta and yellow.

Paint mixing is 'subtractive': each pigment absorbs some light, which is why mixing lots of colours heads towards muddy brown.

Your tries