Dejahue

Dejahue (say it DAY-zhah-hue) is a free daily color memory game, and its name is déjà vu for colors: you have seen this color before, now mix it back. A paint chip shows a color for five seconds, then goes blank, and you mix that color again from memory on a big color picker. When you press MIX IT, the real color is printed right beside yours like a pair of chips at the hardware store, with a single number for how far apart they are, and the chip finally tells you its name. It is a color memory test and a test of your eye in one. It runs in your browser with no download, a whole game takes about a minute and a half, and it is one of our favorite quick games.

Every day brings five new colors, the same five for everyone, and you get one go at them, so your score sits on the same board as everyone else's today. A new set arrives at midnight Eastern Time. The colors are picked to be worth remembering: not the plain primaries of a crayon box but the shades in between, dusty pinks, sea greens, slate blues, mustard yellows and grayish purples, five different families each day. There are 603 of them in the rotation, no two the same color, and a color you saw today does not come back for at least 120 days.

To mix a color you pick its hue and lightness on the color field, then slide the saturation to make it grayer. That slider is the real skill: memory tends to make colors brighter and cleaner than they were, and most of the day's colors are more muted than the bright rainbow you start on. You have five seconds to look at each color and fourteen to mix it. The reveal splits your chip into yours and the real one, stamps a verdict from PERFECT MATCH to WRONG AISLE, names the color and prints its code, and the end card shows your five chips against the real ones, the match of each, your overall match and your points.

The score is fair and exact. Your color is compared with the real one using CIEDE2000, the color difference the paint and print trades use, and turned into a plain match percentage: a mix you cannot tell apart at a glance is a 100% match, a clearly different shade is about 75%, and a different color is 0%. Each color is worth up to 1,000 points, its match times ten, so a perfect day is 5,000, and top scores are replayed on our servers, which puts Dejahue among our competitive games. The colors come from three public sources: the CSS named colors that every web browser knows, the xkcd color survey, where hundreds of thousands of people named colors, and Wikidata's color entries. Once enough people have played the day, the end card also says how your score compares with theirs. Past days stay playable from the archive, for fun and off the leaderboards.

Dejahue plays the same on a phone or a computer, and it was called Paint Chips until November 2026. On a phone, tap or drag on the color field (a loupe above your finger shows the color), drag the slider and tap MIX IT; with a mouse, click and drag the same way; on a keyboard, the arrow keys move your pick, Q and E make it grayer or more colorful and Enter mixes. Everyone sees exactly the same colors, but every screen shows them a little differently, so a warm or dim display can nudge your picks; it shows the original and your mix the same way, so the comparison stays fair. It is one of our mobile games and PC games, and it belongs with our brain games, casual games, crowd games and casual games for adults.