By Michael Hartley
Here's a nice challenging puzzle game I call "Primary Colors". When you play the game, you'll be faced with a bunch of beads on a grid. As the beads jump over each other, they change color. The goal is to change all the beads to red green or dark blue.
Try the game, and you'll get the idea. It will make a lot more sense if you understand a bit about how colors are made on the computer screen.
- Every color you see is made up of three primary colors, namely Red, Green and Blue.
- The computer makes all different shades of colors by mixing these three colors together on the screen. Pink is lots of red, plus a bit of blue and green. Brown is a bit of red, less green, and no blue. And so on, and on, and on, for every color you can see.
- In the game of 'primary colors' there are eight different colors of beads.
- Red, (bright) green and (dark) blue are the primary colors. The goal is to switch all the beads to these three colors.
- Red and Green mixed make Yellow. Red and Blue make a special purple color called "magenta". Green and Blue make a bright sky-blue color called "cyan".
- Mix all three together and you get white, just like a prism shows that white is made up of all the colors of the rainbow.
- If there's no red, green or blue, there's no light at all - no color, or black.
- When a bead jumps over another, the jumped bead changes color. Whatever primary colors the jumping bead has are swapped in the jumped bead. So a red bead can change a yellow bead to green, or vice-versa. A black bead can't change anything. The table below shows all the combinations.
Ready to play? Try the puzzle below :
A Valentine's Day Primary Colors Puzzle
If you liked this game, you may also like Color Switcher.
This table shows what beads change to what when jumped by what.
What changes to what in the primary colors puzzle
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