Looking for a color Wordle? Meet your new daily.
Wordle proved the perfect formula: one puzzle a day, a minute of your attention, a little tile to share. Hueful runs the same ritual with color instead of words.
If you want a Wordle for colors, Hueful is the closest thing: one new color to match every day, three quick rounds (RGB, HSL, and a gradient), a score out of 300, and a spoiler-free share tile. Everyone plays the same color on the same day, and it takes about a minute.
Why the Wordle formula works so well
Wordle's genius was restraint. One puzzle per day creates a shared moment (everyone solves the same one), a natural stopping point (no doom-loop of levels), and a tiny social artifact (the emoji grid) that brags without spoiling. The formula turned a word game into a morning ritual for millions. It works just as well for color.
How Hueful plays as a daily
Every day at midnight there is one new color, the same for every player in the world. You get three rounds with it: mix it with RGB sliders, match a subtler version with hue, saturation, and lightness, then take on a two-color gradient. Each round scores up to 100 on perceptual accuracy, 300 for a perfect day. Then you are done, and Hueful will not chase you with notifications to come back.
- Open Hueful with your coffee. Today's color is waiting.
- Play the three rounds. About a minute total.
- Share your tile: scores and streak, no spoilers about the color itself.
- Watch your palette grow, one day, one color at a time.
Streaks without the guilt
Hueful keeps a streak, but it treats it differently than most daily games. Your streak is a palette: every day you finish leaves its color behind, filling in a growing record of everything you have matched. Miss a day and nothing scolds you. The palette simply continues when you return. It is the Wordle ritual with the anxiety removed.
Compare days with friends
The share tile shows your three round scores and your ΔE for the day, which makes comparing satisfyingly precise: not just "I got it in four," but "I read that gradient two points closer than you." A Game Center leaderboard ranks the day globally, and the home screen widget and Apple Watch app show today's status at a glance.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a Wordle for colors?
Does everyone get the same color each day?
Try today's color.
Hueful is free: three quick rounds a day, about a minute total. iOS and Android.