Colordle Answer Today (April 5, 2026)

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Game overview

What is Colordle?

Colordle is a daily color-guessing game where you try to identify a secret color in as few guesses as possible. Each day, the game picks a target color from a large palette of named colors, and you submit guesses by typing color names like "crimson," "sky blue," or "sage." After each guess, the game returns a percentage score indicating how perceptually close your guess is to the target — 100% means an exact match, while lower scores tell you how far off you are in terms of hue, saturation, and lightness.

The game launched in 2022 during the wave of Wordle-inspired daily puzzle games. While most clones stuck to word-guessing mechanics, Colordle carved out its own niche by turning color perception into a competitive daily challenge. The color pool draws from named colors in the CSS specification and extended palettes — roughly 150 to 200 distinct colors ranging from everyday names like "red" and "blue" to more specific shades like "burnt sienna," "cerulean," and "chartreuse."

Colordle attracts a different audience than word games. Designers, artists, photographers, and anyone who works with color professionally tend to perform well because they already have a trained eye for hue differences and naming precision. The game has built a steady player base of roughly 30,000 daily players, and the community around it shares strategies about which guess colors provide the most useful feedback — a concept called "entropy maximizing" that mirrors the same theory Wordle players use for starter words.

What makes Colordle uniquely addictive is that the difficulty varies enormously from day to day. Some targets are obvious — "olive" or "lavender" have distinctive hues that experienced players can nail in two or three guesses. Other days, the answer is a subtle shade like "misty rose" or "gainsboro" that sits very close to multiple other colors on the spectrum, forcing you to make careful distinctions between near-identical candidates.

Rules and mechanics

How Colordle Works

Each day at midnight, Colordle selects one target color from its palette and assigns it a sequential puzzle number. When you visit the game, you see a color input field and a guess history area. You type a color name, submit it, and the game calculates a perceptual similarity score using an algorithm based on CIELAB color distance — the same mathematical model that scientists use to quantify how different two colors look to the human eye.

The scoring system is not based on hex code proximity. Two colors can have very different hex values but look nearly identical to the eye (depending on your monitor calibration), while two colors with similar hex values can look quite different in saturation or lightness. Colordle accounts for this by using perceptual color distance, which is why a guess of "navy" might score 85% against "dark blue" even though the hex values are far apart.

The answer format is always a color name paired with a hex code. Today's answer, for example, is Pink Red with the hex value #f5054f. The puzzle number for today is #1472, and each puzzle number increments by one daily from the game's original launch date. The reset happens at midnight in the game's server timezone, which aligns with UTC for most players.

There is no hard guess limit, but the game tracks your performance based on how many guesses you needed. Most players solve the daily color in three to six guesses. Getting it in one or two guesses is considered excellent and usually means the target was a common, distinctive color that is easy to identify from a distance on the color spectrum.

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