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How does the Test of Colors work?

  • 1 of 13: Have you looked at the door at the opposite end?
  • 2 of 13: The panel on the door is divided into 4 triangles, each with 4 sections. Colors are painted in parts of each section. Holes can be seen in each corner near the 4 sections.
  • 3 of 13: Fill your flask with a color from the central pots and walk to the door. Use your flask on the appropriate holes as designated on the panel.
  • 4 of 13: Notice that you can carry only 3 parts of each color with you at a time. To fill up the section that needs 4 colors, make more trips.
  • 5 of 13: The ones shown in all yellow and all red are easy enough.
  • 6 of 13: To make purple or green, use parts of one color and parts of another.
  • 7 of 13: Yellow and blue combined make green.
  • 8 of 13: Fill up the hole that needs only one yellow (the bottom right one). Use the remaining 2 parts of yellow on the top right one.
  • 9 of 13: Return to the color pots and fill your flask with 3 parts of blue.
  • 10 of 13: Use 2 parts of blue on the top right. It is now filled with green.
  • 11 of 13: Take the remaining blue one and use it on the bottom left.
  • 12 of 13: Blue and red combined make purple. Use similar actions fill up the ones on the left side.
  • 13 of 13: For those of you who are color-blind, my Room of Colors Graphic might help. It also helps to have the sub-titles turned to "on" so when you point to each pot, the name of the color is displayed.