Coloroku^© Quiz

Your goal is to go from:                                        To:

 

This style of quiz is based upon the popular Sudoku puzzles. However, instead of arranging the numbers 1-9 such that each small box has each number, and each row and column has each number, with no duplications of any number in any small box, row or column, you are to arrange nine different colors with the same rules as for the numbers.

To play: 

1. You can make the puzzle as easy or as hard as you like by pressing the "Show Clues" button as many times as you like.  The letter 'C' will appear in a box whose color was selected in this manner.  The number of times the Show Clues button was clicked is in the box to the left of the button.

2. You may want to click the Picture check button at this time.  The box to the right of the button shows how many squares in the grid have not yet had the proper color selected.  Check the math: 81 total squares - 8 squares shown as clues = 73 squares to be selected.

3. Select a color to place in the grid by clicking on a color from the vertical color strip to the left.  The selected color will appear as the background color of the Show Clues number box.  Place the color anywhere in the grid by clicking on a square.  If you make a mistake, right click the square to return it to white.  A square whose color was selected in this manual way is indicated by the letter 'S'.

4. Another way to show proper colors along with the Show Clues button is by correctly answering a question.  Select a question by picking a colored radio button in the horizontal color strip for which you would like to have the correct placements indicated in the grid.  In the picture below, the orange radio button was selected, and a question appears in the box below.  The orange radio button is grayed out because you get only one shot at correctly answering the question.

5. Select either true or false to the right, and press the Check Answer button.  If you get the answer right, all entries of the selected color will be properly placed in the grid, and the boxes so selected will have the letter 'Q' placed in them.

6. If you get the answer wrong, no changes will appear in the grid. The explanation for the question will now appear in the box above the Check Answer button.
7. Fill in the rest of the grid using any combination of Show Clues, answering questions, or manually selecting and entering colors.  In some cases, more than one letter may appear in the box.  This happens when a box is selected both by the Show Clues button and by correctly answering a question ('CQ" would appear in the box).

8. Note that this quiz used 12 clues and answered one question correctly.  One square has 'CQ' in it.  If you are ready, click Check Answers.  WARNING: Once you click check Answers, there is no going back!

9. Squares that were correctly selected have no letters in them.  Mistakes are indicated by the letters 'XX" in the box.  All of the proper colors are indicated.  This solution was pretty bad, right?  I could have checked Picture Check prior to clicking Check answers, and had I done so, I would have seen:

10. Had I done this prior to clicking the Check Answers button, I would have seen that I had 49 errors.  Also note that no picture will appear if I pass the mouse over the white area.  I can still see the picture after clicking Check Answers, however, by passing the mouse over the white area:

 

There is no right or wrong way to do these quizzes.  Each time you work on the same quiz (whenever you hit the refresh button on your browser), you will get different squares selected after pressing the Show Clues button.  You can make these quizzes as hard or as easy as you like by using combinations of Show Clues, answering questions, manually selecting squares, and through creative use of the Picture check feature.

One way to 'cheat' is to click the Picture Check button and note the number.  Make a selection, then click Picture check again.  f the number is one less, you selected correctly!

There are no rules, nobody is watching, so just have fun!