Can you name the crayon in the Crayola 8-box that is 'closest' perceptually to these colors, with only ONE guess each? by strags11

Can you name the crayon in the Crayola 8-box that is 'closest' perceptually to these colors, with only ONE guess each?

created by strags11

Enter a color in the box below
Correctly named colors will show up below
Click any empty Color [abbr.] or Nearest 8-box crayon to answer for that location
Some wrong answers will appear in red
This is an old game that I've updated to take advantage of the new Sporcle "one-guess" game feature. Only allowed answers are the 8-box crayons: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, black.
Source: Color distance
See first and fourth comments for more details. Careful - some of these are trickier than they seem.
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Color [abbr.]	Nearest 8-box crayon	Next closest color(s)
Almond		orange [white dominant]
Amber		(equidistant)
Amethyst		blue
Anylide		brown
Apricot
Aquamarine		(equidistant)
Arsenic		black
Asparagus		yellow
Auburn		red
Aureolin		orange
Azure		violet
Beige		brown [white dominant]
Bistre		orange, black
Blond		brown [white dominant]
Blush		orange, brown
Bole		red, orange
Brass		brown, orange
Brick		brown
Bronze		orange
Bubble Gum		[white dominant]
Burgundy		black, brown
Burnt Umber		brown, orange
Byzantium		red
Cadet		black
Camel		orange
Camouflage		yellow, brown
Canary		orange
Candy Apple		orange
Capri		green

Color [abbr.]	Nearest 8-box crayon	Next closest color(s)
Caput Mortuum		red [just 0.04% further]
Cardinal		brown
Caribbean		black
Carmine		brown
Carnation		[white dominant]
Ceil		violet
Celadon		[white]
Cerise		orange, brown
Cerulean		black
Chamoisee		orange
Charcoal		blue
Chartreuse		(equidistant)
Cherry Blossom		[white dominant]
Chestnut		brown, but red is almost 10% closer
Chocolate		orange, red
Cinnabar		orange
Cinnamon		orange
Citrine		orange
Cobalt		black
Copper		orange, red
Coquelicot		orange
Coral		red, brown
Cordovan		brown
Corn		orange
Cornflower		[white]
Cotton Candy		[white dominant]
Cream		[white (very) dominant]
Crimson		orange, brown
Cyan		(equidistant)
Almond	(equidistant)
Amber	(equidistant)
Amethyst	(equidistant)
Anylide	(equidistant)
Apricot	(equidistant)
Aquamarine	(equidistant)
Arsenic	(equidistant)
Asparagus	(equidistant)
Auburn	(equidistant)
Aureolin	(equidistant)
Azure	(equidistant)
Beige	(equidistant)
Bistre	(equidistant)
Blond	(equidistant)
Blush	(equidistant)
Bole	(equidistant)
Brass	(equidistant)
Brick	(equidistant)
Bronze	(equidistant)
Bubble Gum	(equidistant)
Burgundy	(equidistant)
Burnt Umber	(equidistant)
Byzantium	(equidistant)
Cadet	(equidistant)
Camel	(equidistant)
Camouflage	(equidistant)
Canary	(equidistant)
Candy Apple	(equidistant)
Capri	(equidistant)
Caput Mortuum	(equidistant)
Cardinal	(equidistant)
Caribbean	(equidistant)
Carmine	(equidistant)
Carnation	(equidistant)
Ceil	(equidistant)
Celadon	(equidistant)
Cerise	(equidistant)
Cerulean	(equidistant)
Chamoisee	(equidistant)
Charcoal	(equidistant)
Chartreuse	(equidistant)
Cherry Blossom	(equidistant)
Chestnut	(equidistant)
Chocolate	(equidistant)
Cinnabar	(equidistant)
Cinnamon	(equidistant)
Citrine	(equidistant)
Cobalt	(equidistant)
Copper	(equidistant)
Coquelicon	(equidistant)
Coral	(equidistant)
Cordovan	(equidistant)
Corn	(equidistant)
Cornflower	(equidistant)
Cotton Candy	(equidistant)
Cream	(equidistant)
Crimson	(equidistant)
Cyan	(equidistant)

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Crayola 8 Matching (A to C) Quiz

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Created Nov 7, 2010 in Miscellaneous
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	strags11:	Nov 7th, 2010 at 14:48 GMT		1 point
	As it turned out, this quiz was a lot trickier to put together than I expected. Humans can distinguish up to 10 million colors, but we perceive considerably more wavelengths to be blue or violet than we do red or orange. Moreover, there's no one universally-accepted formula for computing perceptual color distance. RGB and CMYK are fairly useless in this regard, but HSL (hue-saturation-lightness) works well because hue is the dominant factor to the human brain. For this quiz, I used weighted HSL, plus the color distance formula in the source link. I used Wikipedia's "traditional" HSL value for brown (which isn't really a color - it's a family of colors in the dark red-orange-yellow hue band.) Finally, I chose to require the solver to repeate the clue color name (or its abbreviation) in the answer. Otherwise, with only 8 possible answer values, scoring 100% via cut-and-paste would be trivial. Good luck!

	Icicle:	Nov 7th, 2010 at 15:13 GMT		1 point
	Fun! I didn't get the instructions at first, but the clue really helped. Perfect time, I'd say, if not a little too long. And I hope I'm not the only one who laughed at the short form for burnt umber. . .

	zigfreid:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 03:01 GMT		1 point
	Why not force answering in order? It would circumvent having to type in the color name. But a very well-done and well-researched quiz nonetheless.

	strags11:	May 3rd, 2011 at 01:50 GMT		1 point
	To try out the new features in the Create Game section, I've redone this quiz to use a "1-Guess" format. A wrong answer on any color cannot be corrected later on. Good luck!

	purplebackpack89:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 00:28 GMT		1 point
	I type "brown" for burnt umber and it said I was wrong. 2 globes