Play a colors word search with 57 shades, from RED, BLUE and GREEN to CRIMSON, CHARCOAL and TURQUOISE. Twelve colors hide in each 12×12 grid, and the list is short enough that you will soon know it well. No app, no sign-up and no interstitial before play; it works offline and plays fully from the keyboard.
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Color names are short, averaging just over five letters, and many are made from the commonest letters of all. Pick your targets in this order, and you will rarely need a hint.
TURQUOISE has the only Q. AZURE and BRONZE have the only Zs, JADE the only J, and KHAKI two Ks. PINK and BLACK add a K each. Any of these letters in the grid is a strong lead, because the fill almost never produces them.
V turns up in VIOLET, IVORY, LAVENDER, MAUVE, NAVY and OLIVE. For doubles, look for the LL in YELLOW, the EE in GREEN, the PP in COPPER and the OO in MAROON. A doubled letter looks the same from both ends, which helps with backwards words.
RED and TAN are the hardest, and sixteen four-letter names, BLUE, PINK, GRAY, GOLD, RUBY, TEAL, AQUA, CYAN, JADE, LIME, MINT, RUST, PLUM, NAVY, ROSE and SAND, are close behind. Once the long words are banded, sweep row by row for the first letter. The CY of CYAN and the AQ of AQUA are unusual pairs worth hunting directly.
The colors list has 57 names. The shortest are RED and TAN; the longest are TURQUOISE and CHOCOLATE at nine letters, followed by LAVENDER, BURGUNDY and CHARCOAL. Most names have four or five letters, which makes this one of the more compact themes and a fair choice for a 10×10.
It starts with the rainbow, RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO and VIOLET, then the everyday PINK, PURPLE, BROWN, BLACK, WHITE and GRAY. After that come the shades by family: reds (CRIMSON, SCARLET, RUBY, MAROON, BURGUNDY, MAGENTA), blues (NAVY, TEAL, TURQUOISE, AQUA, CYAN, AZURE, COBALT), greens (EMERALD, JADE, OLIVE, LIME, MINT), neutrals (BEIGE, TAN, KHAKI, CREAM, IVORY, CHARCOAL, SLATE) and the metals, SILVER, GOLD, BRONZE and COPPER.
Many color names borrow from other things: PEACH, PLUM, SALMON, CORAL, ROSE, PEARL, SAND, RUST, AMBER, MUSTARD and CHOCOLATE. The list uses American spelling, GRAY rather than grey, as the page name does.
The timer pauses when the tab is hidden, and Colors stats (played, won, win rate, best and average time) stay in this browser. The first two hints are free; once ads are enabled, more cost a short ad or a 30-second wait. Every grid has a code such as A7K3Q to replay or share, and the printable page makes colors sheets.
The colors grid reads clearly on a small phone, and the colour-blind setting draws every second band dotted so found words stay easy to tell apart. Tidy Puzzles runs entirely in your browser: there is no app to install, no account to create and no interstitial before you can play. After the first visit the game also works offline, because each puzzle is generated on your device from a seed. Every board can be played with the keyboard alone, on a phone or a desktop, and your stats and unfinished puzzles stay in this browser rather than on a server.
The list has 57. Each 12×12 grid hides 12 of them.
GRAY, the American spelling, as in the page name.
RED and TAN, then the sixteen four-letter names such as TEAL and RUST, which are made of common letters.
Yes. Pick Colors on the printable word search page for a PDF with an optional solution page.
The kids word search is gentler: it includes RED, BLUE, GREEN, PINK and GOLD on an 8×8 grid in four directions.
The mixed grid, with words from all twenty themes.
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Any theme as a PDF, with a solution page.
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Last updated 2026-09-27. Written and maintained by the Tidy Puzzles team; puzzles are generated on your device. How it works.