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Spot the odd shade · A color perception game, free in the browser25 parts
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That is the whole difficulty of Color Sense Test: one tile is shifted by twenty-five values per channel, and you have twenty seconds to keep finding it. The scope plots both shades at once. They land on top of each other.

Level 1 20.0

Different mode. Every cell is one shade but one, off by 25 of 255 on each channel.

A color perception game, free in your browser

The monitor above is the whole game, running in this page. No download, no sign-up, no account: every tile carries one shade, one does not, and you have twenty seconds to find it. It is the same board the phone app runs.

Two modes, two ways to be wrong. Different mode is the find-the-odd-color grid: one tile is off by 25 of 255 on each channel, in a direction nothing marks. Bar mode puts the target on the reference bars and asks you to match that exact value off them. Slower work, so it grades a few levels lower.

The shift never changes. The board does: 4 tiles, then 9, 16, 25 and 36 at levels 5, 10, 18 and 30, on a clock that starts on your first correct tile and never resets. A wrong tap costs you nothing but a shake. Your score is levels cleared.

Every run is graded on air

The app returns a verdict the instant the clock stops. Its own words, rung for rung.

Rungs shown for Different mode. Bar mode grades the same lines a few levels lower.

The pocket transmission keeps score

The app is the same game plus what a run is worth keeping for: a global leaderboard per mode, a username to climb under, your own colors on the chrome, and a haptic answer on every cell you touch.

  • Publisher Dolev Ltd.
  • Price Free, with ads
  • App Store 5.0 ★ · 5 ratings
  • Google Play 5.0 ★ · 16 reviews
  • Installs 1,000+ on Play
  • Size 28 MB · iOS 2.3.0
  • Category Puzzle · Ages 4+

Questions about the color test

Starting with the one that matters most: no, this does not measure your eyesight.

Is Color Sense Test a color blindness test?
No. This is a game, not a diagnostic tool. It is not an Ishihara test and has no clinical validity. Your screen, the light in the room and how tired you are move the score more than your vision does. To have your color vision assessed, see an optometrist.
What is a color perception test, and is this one?
It usually means any task that asks how finely you can tell two similar shades apart. This page is the game version of that: entertainment, scored in levels cleared. It cannot tell you whether you are a tetrachromat, and no browser test can, because a normal screen cannot show the extra colors that claim depends on.
Does my screen change my score?
Yes, a lot. Brightness, viewing angle, color profile, ambient light and night-shift filters all change what reaches your eye, which is the main reason this is a game rather than a measurement. Turn off any blue-light filter and play in even light if you want your runs to compare.
How small does the color difference get?
It does not shrink. In Different mode the odd tile is always off by 25 of 255 on each channel, or 24 on odd levels, from level 1 to the end of the run. What gets harder is the rest: the grid grows from 4 tiles to 36, the base shade is random each level, and the clock never resets.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The board above plays in any mobile browser with no install: tap the tile you think is different. The Android and iPhone apps keep your scores, which a browser round cannot.
Is it free to play?
Yes. The browser version is free with no sign-up, and the apps on Google Play and the App Store are free downloads supported by ads. Nothing here asks for an email address or a payment method.
What is the vectorscope on the monitor showing?
It plots the round's colors the way a broadcast vectorscope does: each shade becomes a dot on the two color-difference axes, inside a graticule with the six 75% primary boxes for reference. In Different mode both shades are plotted, and the point is how close they land.
What is the difference between Different mode and Bar mode?
In Different mode the grid is one shade except for a single tile, and you find the odd one out. In Bar mode the reference bars carry a target color, exactly one tile matches it, and the rest are unrelated. Matching off a bar is slower, so Bar mode grades a few levels lower for the same verdict.