There is a boardgame with this theme. First clue is just one word. Second clue is two words. Everyone places a pawn on their color guess. Points awarded based on distance. Easy to play.
This is a good game if you want to be able to hold a conversation with thr people you are playing with. It gets people talking about their experiences. I've played with my own wife and learned about how much she watched TV as a child (did you know Barney changed costumes?), what she thinks of nacho cheese, lipstick, and more.
It is good for people you know as well as people you don't know. The only situation I don't recommend it is if someone in your group wants to win something because the "win" factor is weak.
Oh my god the Barney thing has come up with every single group I've ever played that game with. Blew my mind the first time, then proceeded to blow everyone's minds every game after :D
(y'know, as much as one's mind can be blown by trivia about a children's tv show)
Yes! This game is a lot of fun. My only gripe with it is that the red area is small and the green area is huge, and that's really minor complaint. With the right people this game is amazing.
Now do it by answering with words interpreted as colors using the Netscape algorithm.
I once read a blog post here about how Netscape interpreted colors that are words but aren’t in the official name list, and it comes down to tossing out the non-hex characters and padding/chunking the remaining characters to make RGB numbers, so “dumptruck” might end up being yellow because it ends up being DC0. I immediately wrote a little app that interpreted all the words in /usr/share/dict/words and stuck them in a sqlite db with Lab color representations so you could query for the nearest phony color word for a specific RGB you wanted. It just showed the 100 best matches sorted by closeness, written in their actual color. Fun little spur of the moment evening project.
That'd be a distinct #66666 ... very boring middle grey. But not too bright.
This would of course just be the median colour. It'd be black and white film because it was cheaper, completely incorrectly exposed so that the blacks were bang at the bottom and the film would be much too high an ISO so it'd be grainy as hell. And there would be someone with a really bad hair cut smoking in it.
The sepia pictures are probably that colour because of the toner that was used at the time when they were printed. The silver halides used in photographic paper weren't very stable and were still quite light sensitive. Sepia toner, as well as giving an artistic view, were used to convert the unstable halides to silver sulfide which lasted a hell of a lot longer (as you found out :)
As you can imagine I'm really popular at parties...