Colour Clue
One word. Up to 576 colours. Can your team find the exact shade you meant?
Free in beta · free account needed: you'll sign in before the room opens. Host a free game as a guest instead
Colour Clue
Give a one-word clue and watch your team try to pinpoint your colour on a board of up to 576 shades.
- Recommended players
- 4–25
- Session length
- 10–20 min
- Best for
- Mixed teams, and anyone who thinks they have a good colour vocabulary (they do not)
Before you host
Free in beta · free account needed. During beta, accounts receive Pro access free: up to 30 players and unlimited sessions. No payment card is required. Guest hosts use the Free game list, up to 8 players and 2 sessions per week on this browser. The engine requires at least 3 players to start this game. Recommended group sizes describe the experience, not a plan entitlement; the host’s plan sets the room limit, including the host.
Participants join with a room code and display name; no account or download is required. Hosts can use Free games without an account. Other games require a host account and the relevant access.
Play in a current browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. A larger screen helps with images and matching. Use your usual video or voice call to talk; Fun Friday does not include a call. Everyone plays on their own device. Screen sharing is optional; keep private answers and roles off a shared screen.
The hosting button opens setup with Colour Clue selected. Enter a display name or sign in if needed, then choose Create room. Invite colleagues with the link or code, check the settings and press Start when the group is ready. Opening setup creates no room.
Full plan detailsWhat is Colour Clue?
You are given one colour on a board of up to 576, and one word to describe it. Your team places their pins; the closer they land, the more you both score — and you score too, for a clue that worked.
It turns out "salmon" means something wildly different to everyone, and watching a team discover this about itself is most of the entertainment. Scoring is by distance from the true square, so being nearly right is properly rewarded — and clues that name the colour outright are simply not allowed.
How to play Colour Clue online
- 1
The host starts a session and shares the room code.
- 2
One player is secretly given a colour on the board.
- 3
They give a single-word clue. Naming a colour, pointing at a square or using a number is blocked as they type.
- 4
Everyone else aims at a colour and locks it in — early locks earn a speed bonus.
- 5
Points are scored by how close each pin lands, and the cue giver scores from how well the room did.
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What a good clue looks like
One word, for one colour on a board of hundreds. Good clues name something everyone has seen; bad ones are technically accurate and completely useless:
- “Avocado” — works. The whole room converges on the same murky green.
- “Sunset” — spreads guesses across half the board, which costs the clue-giver too.
- “Mustard” — reliably starts an argument about whether that is yellow or brown.
- “Salmon” — the round in which your team discovers it does not agree on salmon.
- “Bruise” — unpleasant, extremely effective.
When to run Colour Clue
A team that thinks it has a good colour vocabulary
It does not, and finding that out together is most of the entertainment. Design teams are usually the most confident going in and not noticeably better at it.
A short, low-energy slot
Rounds are fast and entirely visual — no reading, no typing beyond one word, no knowledge required.
A team with a colourblind player
Turn on Colour assist. Every cell gets a reference (N7), and every swatch gets a plain-words description — "deep, vivid blue, on the cool side of it" — so the round can be played and argued about in language rather than only by eye. It is not a cure for a colour game, but it is the difference between joining in and sitting out.
Colour Clue questions
Do players need an account or a download?
Participants join with a room code and display name; no account or download is required. Hosts can use Free games without an account. Other games require a host account and the relevant access.
Does it work for colourblind players?
Better than it used to. Colour assist (a toggle on the board, remembered per browser) labels every cell and describes every colour in words, and the whole board can be played from the keyboard. It is still a colour game — some rounds will be harder — but nobody has to guess blind.
Is Colour Clue free?
Yes, during the beta. Hosting Colour Clue needs a host account. During beta, accounts receive Pro access free: up to 30 players and unlimited sessions. No payment card is required. Guest hosts use the Free game list, up to 8 players and 2 sessions per week on this browser. Players never pay and never need an account.
How many people can play Colour Clue?
Colour Clue plays best with 4–25 players and needs at least 3 to start. That range describes the game; how many can join one room depends on the host’s plan. A guest host can have up to 8 players in a room; during the beta, a host with an account can have up to 30.
How long does a game of Colour Clue take?
A typical game of Colour Clue takes 10–20 min.
Can we play Colour Clue on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet?
Yes. Colour Clue runs in the browser, separately from your call: start your Zoom, Teams or Google Meet meeting as usual, share the room code in the chat, and everyone plays on their own screen. Nothing needs installing or connecting to the call.
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Run Colour Clue with your team this Friday.
Create a session, share the room code, and everyone joins from their browser. No downloads, no IT tickets.
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