Hexcodle

[airstrike]

This would work better with 3 guesses for R, G and B rather than 6 hex digits

[dylan604]

6 hex digits or 9 digits for RGB is better? In what way do you figure that to be true?

[exclipy]

Would be cool if part of (or the entirety of) your score was the accuracy of your first guess. That's the part that takes skill, after that, it's not so interesting.

[ryukoposting]

I found myself only looking at the arrows after making my first guess. Fun game nonetheless.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

It immediately devolves to a binary search after the first guess.

[volemo]

I believe, a game would be more fun if, instead of nearing on one colour in several guesses, a player would guess once for several colours. Then one could really test their hex skills, not knowing the basics of search algorithms.

[KMnO4]

You can only play once before it kicks you out. Kinda lame.

Also, I don’t think the hints are correct. It told me the digit 0 was “way higher” than the actual digit.

[jdbartee]

I interpreted <<double up arrow>> to mean the correct solution was “way higher” than my guess, not that my guess was “way higher”.

The wording is potentially confusing, though.

[mmanfrin]

> Also, I don’t think the hints are correct. It told me the digit 0 was “way higher” than the actual digit.

You have this backwards.

[m000]

You can only play once before you realize you can cheat using the browser DOM inspector.

Nice idea though.

[Retr0id]

Isn't playing once per day the whole draw of wordle-likes?

[croes]

You only need 5 guesses to find any number between 0 and 15. With 4 you can find any number in a range of 15 numbers.

Just do a binary search.

[Lerc]

Oh, Knowing that some browsers display higher and lower characters (where I had black squares) would indeed make it easier.

All I had was the colour diff to go by. I only managed to get got the major digits.

[hannahlars]

Hey all! My name is Hannah, 1/2 of the Hexcodle dev team. First of all, thank you for playing! We woke up today astonished with the amount of visits on our site and we can't thank you enough! Reading through these comments and we have been working on some of the feedback from you all: we have been working on the concept of a points system so playing will hopefully be a bit more engaging for those familiar with the binary search method! We're hoping to have this implemented within the next few weeks.

If you have any questions or want to give us feedback, we have a feedback form in our navbar, make sure to leave an email if you'd like me to follow up with you in the future.

Thanks again :)

[tedunangst]

Is there any reason to look at the target instead of just going for binary search? The least significant digit is kinda meaningless to guess without fixing the more significant one.

[jagthebeetle]

While I agree the LSD is somewhat meaningless, I personally find it fun to test my color matching/mixing. Binary search circumvents that (at least for the most significant digit); though I agree it really only applies for the first and maybe second guess.

For instance, my initial guess was off by (+1,-1,-1,+3,-1-2) and my first impulse was to look at the target and see that I had too much red and not enough green.

[masto]

To have fun, perhaps?

[justinl33]

You’re right. I see the target colour as more of a nice visualisation of my quantitative working

[johnzim]

Brilliant and probably building a skill that's actually useful (if a little esoteric).

[dave333]

To avoid the binary search making it trivial, maybe just tell you which guesses are correct and which other guesses match a value somewhere, like yellow letters in wordle. I think that would be more interesting but I have only played it in my head so the error margin could be significant. Of the top of my head I would use the lesser digits to search the space systematically while making the major digits match the color as best I could. Still it is fun as is and I have added it to my window of daily puzzle tabs.

[WhitneyLand]

Or maybe not tell which digits match, and instead give a different type of clue, like Euclidean distance between the two colors.

[zarathustreal]

Considering that colors are a three-dimensional quantity with ambiguous ordering (#FF0000 and #00FF00 being equal distance from #000000 for example) I’m not sure how you’re thinking a binary search would trivialize this?

[ssalka]

Fun game! Can you add an indicator of which guess is which / their order? I was looking for the most recent guess at the bottom of the list, but it's actually on top

[pimlottc]

Hmm, just did it again today and I got the same color as yesterday? It’s past 8 AM here, when does it change?

[kgwxd]

Seems like a fun way to train your eye for recognizing colors. Only missed 2 playing the way I'm sure it was intended to be. Binary search is cool and all but, if you want to "cheat", right-click > inspect element is far more efficient.

[almostnormal]

Easy/hard switch at the top doesn't seem to do anything?

Maybe instead of hints for 4 bit summarize them to combined hints for the full bytes in hard-mode?

[johndunne]

Fun game... a nice idea especially since it's a game that can help you imagine hex numbers in relation to RGB colour components.

[dimava]

Can we get one with OKLCH please?

OKLCH is literally made with intention to make colors easily guessable

[throwaway81523]

I've seen a pretty usable 3x5 font. I'm sure those have been done multiple times.

[albert_e]

I thought it was a number game and realized it was colour code only after solving :)

[LanternLight83]

I wonder if metrics would show any difference in win-rate for HSL over RGB

[ChrisArchitect]

Had a laugh doing today's round. Proper nerd fun. Good job.

[emrah]

Very cool idea for a wordle alternative!