Ink & Word

Tap the colour each word is printed in, whatever it spells.

A colour word appears on the card, written in coloured ink. Sometimes they agree, often they do not. Tap the button for the ink and let the word go by. It sounds easy until the word ‘blue’ turns up in orange.

How to play

Look at the colour the word is printed in.
Tap the button of that colour. What the word says does not matter.
Pick the wrong colour and the game pauses for a second before showing another word.
You have forty-five seconds.

Levels and modes

EasyEasy uses four colours and about half of the words disagree with their ink.
MediumMedium uses six colours and three words in four disagree.
HardHard keeps six colours, but the answer buttons are written words instead of colour patches, shuffled for each game.

What your result means

The result is the number of correct taps in forty-five seconds. The card adds wrong taps, accuracy and your average response time in milliseconds for the correct ones.

Tips from the tea table

Let your eyes rest on the edge of the letters, where the ink is, rather than reading the middle of the word.
Keep a finger hovering over the middle of the buttons so every colour is the same short move away.
On the hardest level, learn the button order in the first few seconds. It stays the same for the whole game.
A wrong tap costs a full second, so a calm correct tap beats a quick wrong one.

Questions

Does the same ink ever come twice in a row?

No, the next ink is always a different colour, so a pressed button never repeats.

I am colour-blind. Can I play?

This game is built on telling colours apart, so some pairs may be hard. The other seven games do not depend on colour.

Which keys can I use?

Number keys 1 to 4 or 1 to 6, in the order of the buttons. The numbers are shown on the buttons when you use a mouse.

Why are the words in my language?

The colour words follow the language of the page, so the pull of the word is as strong as it should be.

Tea sets with Ink & Word

These sets pour Ink & Word as one of their three cups: