Colour Clue
One word. Up to 576 colours. Can your team find the exact shade you meant?
Colour Clue
Give a one-word clue and watch your team try to pinpoint your colour on a board of up to 576 shades.
- 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)
What 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?
No. Only the host needs a Fun Friday account. Everyone else joins from any browser with a 6-character room code and a display name — no app, no install, no IT ticket.
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.
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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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