Colordle Answer Today

What is Colordle?

Colordle is a daily browser game where you guess a secret color by typing its name. After each guess, Colordle returns a percentage showing how perceptually close your guess is to the target — 100% means you nailed it. The game uses Delta E CIE2000 in LAB color space to calculate that percentage, which is the same formula used in professional color matching and printing industries worldwide. That means "close" in Colordle translates to "close" in real life — not just numerically similar hex codes, but visually similar colors as your eye would actually perceive them. This is what makes Colordle different from a simple hex-guessing game: it measures color the way humans see color, not the way computers store color data.

The answer pool contains roughly 150 to 200 named colors. Some are obvious — "red," "blue," "green" — but many are obscure shades like "celadon," "amaranth," "gamboge," and "vermilion" that most people would not think to guess unprompted. That obscurity is part of the challenge. You can get a 95% match and still be nowhere near the correct name because you simply do not know that the shade you are looking at is called "teal" rather than "blue green" or "cyan" rather than "aqua." The naming conventions in color science are not always intuitive, and Colordle leverages that ambiguity to keep players engaged and guessing.

There is no guess limit. You can keep guessing until you hit 100% or give up. Most people solve it in three to six guesses if they use a systematic approach, and in eight to twelve guesses if they are just throwing out color names without a strategy. The game resets daily at midnight UTC, so everyone sees the same target color on the same day, which creates a shared experience that players compare on social media and in group chats. That social component is a big part of what keeps people coming back day after day.

How Today's Answer Was Determined

Colordle assigns each day a sequential puzzle number starting from a fixed launch date. Today is puzzle #868. The target color is selected from a pre-defined list of named colors indexed by that day number. The list cycles through, so after it exhausts all entries, it starts over from the beginning. The answer for May 18, 2026 is aqua. This deterministic selection process means that everyone who plays Colordle on the same day gets the exact same target color, regardless of their timezone, device, or browser.

This page generates the answer at build time using the same logic. We resolve the color name against a large database of named colors — the same one Colordle pulls from — to get the exact hex code. If the name is a compound like "sea green" or "dark slate," we strip spaces and check against both the spaced and unspaced versions. The hex code you see is the one the game uses — no approximation, no guesswork. Our build process runs automatically each day, so the answer updates precisely when the daily puzzle resets.

The answer reveal above uses a CSS-only mechanism rather than JavaScript. The answer starts invisible and becomes visible only when you click the reveal button. This approach is lighter, faster, and works even if JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Your choice to reveal or not is entirely in your hands — we intentionally designed it so you can read the strategy tips below without accidentally seeing the solution. If you want to solve the puzzle yourself first, simply scroll past the answer card and use the solver link instead.

Strategy Tips for Future Colordle Puzzles

Your first guess should be a primary or secondary color: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, or pink. The percentage you get back immediately tells you which hue family the target belongs to. If "blue" scores 70%, the answer is somewhere in the blue family. If "red" scores 30%, the answer is far from red — you can rule out the entire warm end of the spectrum and focus your next guesses on the cool side. This single guess saves you from wasting time on colors that are clearly in the wrong hue family.

Your second guess should test lightness within that hue family. If you know the target is blue, try "navy" (dark blue) and "sky blue" (light blue). The one that scores higher tells you whether the target is dark or light. Your third guess narrows saturation — "cobalt" is a saturated blue, "slate" is desaturated. Three strategic guesses will usually get you to 90% or higher, and from there it is a matter of naming the exact shade. The key insight is that each guess should test a different dimension of color — hue first, then lightness, then saturation — rather than randomly throwing out names and hoping one sticks.

Learn the boundary colors. Colors like "teal" sit between blue and green, "magenta" between red and purple, "gold" between yellow and orange. When your percentages hover around 75-85% regardless of which neighboring family you guess from, you are dealing with a boundary color. These are the hardest to pin down because they do not clearly belong to any single family. The Colordle solver on this site handles these edge cases automatically when you enter your guesses and percentages — it checks all candidates simultaneously rather than requiring you to guess one family at a time.

Finally, learn the unusual color names. Colordle draws from a large list that includes many names most people never encounter in daily life. Names like "celadon" (a pale green), "amaranth" (a pinkish red), "gamboge" (a mustard yellow), "vermilion" (a bright orange-red), and "saffron" (a deep yellow) trip up players who have never heard of them. Spend ten minutes reviewing a color name reference and that knowledge will pay off within a week of daily play. The unlimited mode on this site is perfect for this — each round exposes you to new color names and their visual appearance, building your mental library faster than the daily puzzle alone.

Using the Colordle Solver Effectively

The solver works best when you have already made one or two guesses in the game. Enter the color name you guessed (use the search dropdown to find it quickly) and the percentage Colordle showed you. The solver calculates the Delta E distance between your guess and every candidate color, then filters out any color that would not produce the same percentage. Each additional guess you enter further narrows the candidate list exponentially. With two guesses, you typically narrow from hundreds of colors down to fewer than twenty. With three guesses, you are usually looking at fewer than five.

The tolerance is set to 0.02 percentage points, which matches the two-decimal precision Colordle displays. If your guess of "sea green" returned 72.45%, the solver keeps only colors where the calculated percentage is between 72.43% and 72.47%. That tight tolerance means the filtered list is accurate — you are seeing the exact set of colors that the game's formula would consider consistent with your guess. There is no approximation involved; the solver uses the same Delta E CIE2000 formula the game uses, so the numbers match exactly.

If you accidentally enter a wrong percentage, the solver will filter out the correct answer along with the incorrect candidates. If your results look wrong after adding a guess — for example, if the candidate list suddenly drops to zero — double-check the percentage from the game. The most common mistake is transposing digits, typing 57% instead of 75%, which eliminates every valid candidate instantly. If that happens, simply remove the incorrect entry and the solver will recalculate from the remaining correct guesses.