‘Hexcodle’ Is A Daily Game Like Wordle But For Color & Coding Geeks

Screenshot via Hexcodle

Need to add vibrancy to your daily guessing game routine? Look no further than Hexcodle, a hued twist to the New York Times’ ever-popular Wordle.

Created by developers Hannah and Ekim, Hexcodle is a game for those who dream in RGB—where, instead of guessing words, you test your ability to decipher the complex spectrum of digital colors, one daily hex code at a time.

Each day, a new color is chosen as the target, and players have five tries to guess the correct hex code. With every attempt, Hexcodle provides feedback in the form of checkmarks and arrows, showing the guessed color in a box and offering hints about how close you are to the correct code.

To help you along, with hex codes, colors are represented in a RRGGBB format. “The digits/letters in these locations denote the intensity of that color; 0 being the lowest, and F being the highest,” the creators explain.

The hex codes for white and black are #FFFFFF and #000000 respectively, with an ultimate green without red and blue intensities being distinguished as #00FF00, and a true blue being identified as #0000FF.

For those who crave an extra challenge, Hexcodle offers a hard mode, where the feedback is less specific, making the guessing game all the more intense. Here, players won’t know how close their guess is numerically; they’ll only be told whether to aim higher or lower. It's a true test of color knowledge and deductive reasoning.

If this is your kind of game, you might also enjoy Google’s Say What You See, where you guess text prompts behind AI-generated images.

[via Hexcodle]