Hexcodle

https://hexcodle.com/

by chat • 3 years ago

226 59 3 years ago

hexcodle.com

johnzim• 3 years ago

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

KMnO4• 3 years ago

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• 3 years ago

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.

m000• 3 years ago

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

Nice idea though.

redhale• 3 years ago

LOL

You can cheat at Monopoly by just taking more money out of the box. You can cheat at Wordle by googling the answer for that day.

mmanfrin• 3 years ago

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.

Retr0id• 3 years ago

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

croes3• 3 years ago

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• 3 years ago

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.

xp84• 3 years ago

Did you go to great lengths to suppress emoji, are you running on Windows 7, or is it a bug?

tedunangst• 3 years ago

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• 3 years ago

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• 3 years ago

To have fun, perhaps?

IshKebab2• 3 years ago

Games that can be trivially solved are generally not fun. Nobody* plays noughts and crosses for fun once they have figured out the solution.

*standard HN disclaimer

justinl33• 3 years ago

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

airstrike2• 3 years ago

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

dylan6043• 3 years ago

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

croes3• 3 years ago

I think parent means guessing the three numbers of an RGB value not the 9 digits

kowlo• 3 years ago

good fun

I got Hexcodle #140 in 3 guesses!

LanternLight83• 3 years ago

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

ssalka• 3 years ago

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

ChrisArchitect• 3 years ago

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

kgwxd• 3 years ago

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.

throwaway81523• 3 years ago

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

ryukoposting• 3 years ago

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

8n4vidtmkvmk• 3 years ago

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

quirino• 3 years ago

Or even from the first guess, I started with #777777

volemo• 3 years ago

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.

johndunne• 3 years ago

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

dave333• 3 years ago

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• 3 years ago

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

zarathustreal2• 3 years ago

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?

zarathustreal2• 3 years ago

This is what I get for not actually clicking the link..each of the dimensions are given independent indications of being too high or too low

KerryJones• 3 years ago

Hex is always specific ordering, R > G > B. They're all 0 through F (16 digits). It gives you a "higher, lower, equals" on every digit. That means it's 6 cases of binary searches, 2^4 = 16, so that's all you're going to need.

albert_e• 3 years ago

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

exclipy• 3 years ago

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.

chinchang• 3 years ago

Fun game!

almostnormal• 3 years ago

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?

emrah• 3 years ago

Very cool idea for a wordle alternative!

relbeek• 3 years ago

No support for 3 digit hex codes?

pimlottc• 3 years ago

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

dimava• 3 years ago

Can we get one with OKLCH please?

OKLCH is literally made with intention to make colors easily guessable

hannahlars• 3 years ago

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 :)

Hexcodle

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