How to play ChromaHunt

If you've already read the homepage, you know the basics: spin, get a colour, find things in that colour, build a collage. This guide gets into the detail — from how colours get distributed so nobody's left without a turn, to exactly what to look for when you land on brown, the most unfair colour on the wheel.

A person holds a phone with ChromaHunt's colour wheel spinning, in a living room with natural light.

1. Add the players

Before anyone spins, add everyone who's playing from the side panel — up to ten people in the same game, each with an editable name. Nobody needs their own phone: you pass it around by turns, and the app keeps track of who's played and who hasn't.

2. Spin and get a colour

Tap spin and wait for the wheel to stop. The colour you land on isn't purely random: if two other players already have red, your odds of landing red drop to a quarter of normal, so the game tends to spread colours out instead of piling them onto two or three players. Not happy with the result? You can spin again — just know it replaces the colour you already had.

3. Choose difficulty and grid size

Before the first spin, decide how many colours are in play. Easy has six — the ones in any living room —, medium goes up to ten, and hard adds turquoise, lime, and metallic gold and silver for fourteen. Custom mode lets you build your own palette, uncheck colours, or add your own with a native colour picker. This is also where you pick the collage size: 2×2 for quick rounds, 3×3 for the full challenge, in square or vertical story format.

4. Hunt and photograph

With your colour assigned, walk the house looking for objects in it. Tap an empty collage slot to pick a photo from the gallery or take one on the spot with the camera. Before saving you can crop it, zoom, or rotate it 90 degrees, just like a profile photo — and you can always readjust it later without losing the original picture.

5. Vote in the gallery

Once everyone's done — or once you decide to call time — head to the gallery. Every collage shows its author's name and colour, and the other players rate it with a face, from rough to amazing. You can't vote on your own collage; instead you'll see a note that it's yours.

6. Check the podium

Results average out each collage's score and rank the top three on a podium with different heights, each with its thumbnail and score. Genuine ties share a position. From there you can share a summary image of the podium, or download each collage separately.

Five blue objects — a mug, a book, a charger, a glasses case and a keyring — seen from above on a light wood table.

Object ideas by colour

If you draw a blank staring at the living room, here are starting points for the obvious colours and the trickier ones.

  • Redan apple, a soda can logo, a cushion, a book spine, a trainer's label
  • Bluea pair of jeans, a cleaning product bottle, a mug, a phone case, a pen
  • Yellowa banana, a sticky note, a dish sponge, a remote control button, a chocolate bar wrapper
  • Greena houseplant (fine, that one's easy), a recycling label, a hair tie, a glasses case, a charger
  • Whitea sheet of paper, a plate, a light switch, a sock, the lid of a cream jar
  • Blacka remote control, a charger, a pair of sunglasses, a picture frame, a hair elastic
  • Browna chopping board, a cardboard box, a door frame, a wooden button, a clay mug
  • Orangean apricot, a vitamin bottle, a folder, a cable, a plastic toy
  • Golda ring, a mirror frame, a medal, a coat button, the rim of the good china
  • Silvera fork, a keyring, a laptop case, a washing machine dial, a watch rim

Tricks for finding things faster

  • Start with what you're wearing and what the person next to you is wearing — there's almost always something in your colour without moving an inch.
  • The kitchen and bathroom pack in more colours than you'd think: packaging, bottle caps, sponges, towels.
  • If you're stuck, look up: lamps, door and window frames, and light switches often save a tough round.
  • The metallic colours are almost always found in jewellery, photo frames, and small appliances.
A finished 3×3 collage on a phone screen, held in one hand, with nine real photos of objects in the same colour.

Variants for birthdays and parties

With young kids, lower the bar: easy difficulty, a 2×2 grid, and a one-minute limit per turn so the hunt stays frantic instead of frustrating.

At a bigger party, move up to hard difficulty or custom mode and add one extra rule: no repeating a room in two photos in a row, so the search spreads across the whole house.

For a grown-up birthday night, play one round per guest with the full 3×3 grid and save voting for the end, passing the phone around in a circle — the podium becomes the night's prize.

How many players, and how long it takes

ChromaHunt supports 1 to 10 players in the same game; with just one it loses the competitive edge, but it still works as a personal challenge. A round with a 2×2 grid wraps up in 5-10 minutes per player; with the full 3×3 grid, budget 15-20 minutes. No game has a fixed limit: play as many rounds as you like, switch colours between rounds, and keep adding votes to the gallery.

A group of three or four people around a table, one holding the phone while the others search the room for objects.