Match the colour
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Today's colour
Your mix
can you match the colour?
โ 1Huey is a free daily colour-matching visual puzzle. Everyone gets the same colour each day, shown in a big swatch. Your job is to mix it yourself with three sliders (hue, saturation and lightness) and get close enough to win.
Hue picks the colour around the rainbow, saturation sets how vivid it is (from grey to full colour), and lightness runs from black to white. Move the sliders, or use the โ and + buttons for fine steps, until your mix looks like today's colour, then press Submit. Each try shows how close you are as a percentage, and for every slider an arrow showing which way to move it, a rough amount (a touch, a little, quite a bit or a lot), and a bar for how much that slider is throwing you off. The slider that's furthest off is marked. Closeness is measured the way eyes see colour (using the CIEDE2000 colour-difference formula), not just by comparing numbers.
Each day is Easy, Medium or Difficult, shown on the badge. About half of all days are easy: bright, clear colours, and 92% closeness wins. About a third are medium: softer, more muted colours, and you need 95%. Roughly one day in seven is difficult: near-greys, deep shades or pale tints, where hue is hard to judge, and you need 97%. Mondays are always easy, and difficult days mostly land at the weekend.
Win 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. Submitting without moving a slider since your last try doesn't cost anything. Stuck? The helper sets the slider that's furthest off to its exact value and locks it, but it halves the day's score and is only available until your third miss.
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.
You can win Huey without judging colour at all. Every slider shows its exact value, and after each try the arrows and amounts tell you which way to move and roughly how far, so you can home in on the numbers alone. Turn on High contrast to add colour names along the hue slider (and next to your current hue), larger readouts and bolder outlines. Your setting is remembered. The page itself is plain neutral grey so it doesn't tint the colours, there's no clock, and animations switch off if your device asks for reduced motion.
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