11 Responses

1. Maria says:

   September 14, 2006 at 8:23

   This is tricky–and fun! Thanks for the men­tal cal­is­then­ics!
   –Maria
2. Beate says:

   September 20, 2006 at 10:28

   Ha! I really slowed down when the color and word no longer coin­cided. Asso­ci­a­tion is a strong pre­dicter of response!
3. Victoria says:

   September 21, 2006 at 4:34

   Answer: Brown
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5. Alvaro says:

   September 25, 2006 at 10:34

   Happy that you enjoyed it!
6. Aaron says:

   September 29, 2006 at 2:31

   The trick of these is dis­so­ci­at­ing from the text itself. A slight relax­ation of the pupils and the text becomes blurred allow­ing one to focus only on the color.
7. Alvaro says:

   September 30, 2006 at 9:13

   Aaron: great trick. You can cer­tainly do that. Alter­na­tively, you can train your brain to inhibit your nat­ural response and instead develop a new response pattern.
8. halo1 says:

   May 3, 2007 at 10:34

   its hard
9. shashank says:

   December 11, 2007 at 10:58

   blue color , its all filled inside all the let­ters of the words given .
10. Alvaro says:

    December 11, 2007 at 6:20

    Shasha: a very cre­ative, and tech­ni­cally cor­rect, answer Now, can you also say the color of each word?
11. SammyP says:

    May 15, 2008 at 6:31

    That’s hard at first…but when I group the words by color (all reds, all greens, etc) and then jump around to that color it becomes very easy. I think that might be cheat­ing. (I like shashank’s answer too)