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[Solution] Crazy Colors – 31 October 2022

This puzzle gives a list of mixed up color names in alphabetical order. The unscrambled colors are:

  1. APRICOT
  2. BEIGE
  3. BRICK
  4. BURGUNDY
  5. CANARY
  6. CERULEAN
  7. COBALT
  8. CORAL
  9. CRIMSON
  10. GOLDENROD
  11. LAVENDER
  12. LEMON
  13. LILAC
  14. MAROON
  15. MAUVE
  16. NAVY
  17. PEACH
  18. PLUM
  19. SALMON
  20. SAPPHIRE
  21. SCARLET
  22. ULTRAMARINE
  23. VERMILLION
  24. VIOLET

The puzzle also contains a grid with boxes numbered with numbers from 1-24. The grid can be colored with the colors given, or solvers may notice that the colors given are all shades of red, orange, yellow, blue, and violet – with the possible exception of beige, which is shown here as a yellow, but was deliberately kept from being in any important location.

  • The finished grid, using all 24 colors
  • The finished grid, with only the hidden letters colored in
  • The finished grid, using only five rainbow colors

In the completed color-by-number, certain patches of color stand out, and these can be read as letters. When read left-to-right, top-to-bottom, the hidden letters spell out GREENISH, a word which describes none of the colors in this puzzle.

*It came to my attention after this puzzle was published that VERMILION – with only one L – is the standard spelling. However, since the two-L version is considered acceptable – if rarer, I elected to leave it as-is.