What is Colorfle?
Colorfle is a daily color-mixing puzzle. The target color is made from three swatches chosen from a palette of twenty, blended in weighted proportions. You submit a recipe of three colors per row across six rows, with slots weighted unevenly—the example splits them 50%, 30%, and 20%—so order matters. Each submitted row is mixed and scored against the target. This is a game of color perception, not knowledge.
How to play Colorfle
- Tap three swatches from the palette. Order matters: the first slot contributes half of the mix, while the last contributes one fifth.
- Press Enter. The game blends the colors, shows an accuracy percentage, and compares your mix with the target in the circle at the top.
- Adjust your selection and submit it again. Click a result circle to compare it with an earlier guess.
- Solve the puzzle within six rows. A new Colorfle appears each day at 5 p.m. local time.
You get feedback in two places. Each swatch is highlighted green when its color is in the recipe and in the right slot. Yellow means the color belongs in the recipe but is in the wrong position; no highlight means it is not part of the recipe.
At the end of each row, a circle shows the blended result as an accuracy percentage and takes on that blend’s color. The percentage shows how far off you are. The split circle at the top indicates the direction of the error: too warm, too dark, or too grey.
Why play Colorfle?
Most daily puzzles reward 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. It fits people who work with color or enjoy perceptual estimation. It is a poor fit for players who want trivia or who have a color vision deficiency, because the target, feedback highlights, and comparison circle are all encoded in hue with no alternative signal. There is no archive, so a day skipped is a day gone.
Tips for a more accurate guess
A yellow highlight means re-order the swatches rather than replace them. The slots have different weights, so the same three swatches in a different order produce a genuinely different color. Swapping one out at that point discards information you already paid for.
The percentage shows how far the blend is from the target. The split circle shows whether it is too warm, too dark, or too grey. Two guesses can score within a point of each other while being wrong in opposite directions. Chasing the percentage 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 colorful, the recipe is often two hues plus one of those two. Testing that early is cheaper than cycling through a third hue.
Modes
Daily: Three colors, 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.
Is there a color-blind or high-contrast setting?
None is offered on the board. The site has a dark theme and nothing else on that front, so the green and yellow highlights are the only non-hue cue available.