Daily color games: match, mix and remember a shade

Every colour game we list is also on the daily colour games page (/daily-colour-games). The games below split into four kinds, and the kind tells you more than the name does.

Matching games name or show a colour and ask you to make it. Hued names an everyday colour and gives you three guesses with a colour picker; Close Hue and ColorGuesser each name five colours a day; Crayondle names a crayon and gives you one shot with RGB sliders; Palette shows the target beside your mix and takes one submission; The Daily Hue hides one colour from an artwork and points you closer after each miss. LogoHue, Flag Fill, GeoPaint and Quizebra's Find the Color ask for the colours of logos and flags, so knowing the brand or country helps. Chroma from robson.plus asks the least of your hand: pick the right swatch for each name. ColorGradle stretches the idea to a whole photo, where you match a colour grade in 60 seconds.

Deduction games work like Wordle with colours. Hexcodle (and its three-character Hexcodle Mini), Colorle and Hexle ask for the day's hex code, with arrows or coloured tiles for each digit. Spectra and COLOR CODE ask for red, green and blue values instead, so you need no hex. Colordle has you type colour names, and Colorfle and Chroma on Greatest Games ask which colours, in which shares, mix into the target.

Memory games show a colour, take it away and ask for it back. Dialed Color, Afterglow, Color Memory Game and Coloruno flash five colours each; Afterimage gives you five too, with less time to look and a distraction before you rebuild each one; Colorecall shows two shapes at once, which is harder; Color Match Game, Dialed Color2 and ToonTone use parts of illustrations, cartoons and logos, the last two asking for colours you already know.

Perception games test your eyes in the moment. Hueman asks you to spot the odd tile as the difference shrinks. Hue Complete Me on Puzzmo, HueSort, Huedle, Gradientle, Huezzle and Dialed Pattern all ask you to swap scrambled tiles back into a smooth gradient; they differ in grid size, which tiles are fixed and whether moves or time count. HUES and the Chromatic app add a clock to matching.

To start, try Hued or The Daily Hue for a gentle match, Hexcodle if you like working out codes, Hueman for a quick test of your eyes and a gradient game such as Huedle if you prefer a calm puzzle. Move on to Colorecall or Dialed Color once you want a memory challenge. Prism bundles five short colour tests into one daily, so it suits anyone who wants a bit of everything. Most take two to five minutes; Hue Complete Me and Afterimage can take longer.

One more game sits at the edge of the list: Forgeous shows a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art each day and has you copy it by drawing on your screen with your finger. Your copy is scored and ranked on the day's top scores, and matching the painting's colours is much of the work, so it sits between a colour game and a drawing one.