Color Guessing Game: How RGB Works & a Free Daily Puzzle

Learn how screen color really works, pick up a foolproof strategy, and play a free daily color guessing game in your browser.

▶ Play today's free color puzzle — Spectra

What is a color guessing game?

A color guessing game challenges you to identify a hidden color. The fun version isn't about having a perfect eye — it's deduction: you make a guess, get a "hotter or colder" clue, and zero in on the answer. Think Wordle, but the secret is a color instead of a word.

How RGB color works (the 30-second version)

Every color on a screen is made by mixing three lights: Red, Green and Blue — that's "RGB." Turn the three dials up and down and you can make any color. Crank all three up and you get white; all the way down is black; lots of red and green with no blue makes yellow, and so on.

To keep things friendly, the daily game Spectra uses a value from 0 to 9 for each channel instead of the usual 0–255. So a color is just three digits — for example 1-5-7 is a little red, medium green, lots of blue: a sky blue.

How to play (and win)

Winning strategy — binary search. Start each channel at 5. The arrow tells you which half to keep: if it says higher, try 7; lower, try 3. Each guess halves the range, so any channel is nailed in about three steps — and the three channels are independent, so you can solve them in parallel. That's why Spectra is always winnable.

Example. Guess 5-5-5 → Red says ▼ (go lower), Green is exact, Blue says ▲ (go higher). Next try 3-5-7, and keep halving each off channel until all three turn green.
▶ Try today's color on Spectra

FAQ

Do I need good color vision? No — the feedback is numeric (exact / within 2 / far, with arrows), so it's pure logic, not perception.

Is it free? Yes, free, no login, no ads, works on mobile, new color every day — with an unlimited practice mode too.