Braingle: 'Hidden Colors' Brain Teaser

Hidden Colors

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Puzzle ID:	#10864
Fun:	(3.13)
Difficulty:	(1.76)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	Ninjaxdream
Corrected By:	4demo

Can you find the eleven hidden colours in the following paragraph:

Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.

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Comments

karelmania Mar 10, 2003	Interesting but soo easy
tissue Mar 10, 2003	Yeah, but it was fun. I think the point of it was to get it right.
shaylor Mar 11, 2003	red in there twice...injuRED
stkaplan Mar 16, 2003	C'mon...ultraviolet is a color...
bluetwo Mar 17, 2003	yes, red is in there twice. also, (aside from the red thing), there are actually TWELVE colours in the paragraph... you forgot about the word "COLOUR" itself! hehehe.. =)
horse_luver Mar 18, 2003	Aside from the red thing (which I also noticed), and the fact that blue, brown and violet were completely obvious, GR8 TEASER!
Ilovepink4 Jun 26, 2005	I thought it was kind of hard at first but it was fun.
twixy Aug 13, 2006	love it.
OldChinaHand Dec 08, 2006	A very nice teaser, good for the many diverse language skill levels here at Braingle. It is this diversity and not individualistic perspectives that I find most appealing here. And it is appealing to that diversity that is the challenge for contributors. So well done.
Trishgal Dec 08, 2006	Got them all ,besides in digo and I just gave up nice teaser
qwertyopiusa Dec 08, 2006	brilliant!
hoyty Dec 08, 2006	easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
pleroux Dec 08, 2006	Good teaser! Despite what some people have saids about "brown" being obvious, it was the third last one I found! Keep up the great work
puttumup Dec 08, 2006	that was great i loved it..right up my ally .great job ..and im skimpy on the complimants,,,
bradon182001 Dec 08, 2006	This was kind of easy, but since I didn't find all of them, it was kind of hard. It really was a good test of patience to make sure I found them all. Each time I read the paragraph, I'd find another. Good job.
(user deleted) Dec 08, 2006	OK, I missed "olive", but you didn't count "peacock" - it's a shade of blue. Nice little challenge first thing in the a.m.
coachpisco Dec 08, 2006	I really liked this one.
goodyfish Dec 08, 2006	Fun brain teaser, but no one mentioned that PEA is also a color, so there are 12
locutus13ds Dec 08, 2006	Got all but Olive and Indigo. I guess I deal in primaries only.. Ha Good One.
I_Write_Books Dec 08, 2006	Not too bad
I_Write_Books Dec 08, 2006	enjoyable but easy
scallio Dec 08, 2006	Darn the colors OLIVE and INDIGO! I didn't find them. I assumed you must have been referring to Peacock (blue?) and Pea (as in pea green) as colors. I must have read that paragraph 6 times! Thanks for a fun morning!
tonjawithaj Dec 08, 2006	I missed olive and indigo too, but ah well! It was well done! Keep em coming!
Synlapse Dec 08, 2006	I got all but olive, but olived it anyway.
nikitafullmoon Dec 08, 2006	That was fun! I agree with OldChinaHand; we have to remember that we're not all from the USA. Also, to expand on that, we're all different ages, too, and what might be really easy for a 30-year old could be difficult for an 8-year old...and vice-versa, believe me...! And thanks, Ninjaxdream, for the Canadian/British spelling of "colourful"!
iteachkids Dec 08, 2006	I had to print it out and go from there. What a FUN one! Thanx!!!
amn0856 Dec 08, 2006	it was such a fun teaser, I didn't find the red that you had listed because it was the first thing I found in inju(red), so I wasn't looking for it!
bookwormRLB Dec 08, 2006	Got 10 of them! I missed black. I had wondered if it was a trick since red's in there twice.
senther7 Dec 08, 2006	YAY fun word "serch" got all the obips ones......lol
breathesunshine Dec 08, 2006	This was fun! I also had to print it out so I could circle as I went. I found 11 but included two reds and peacock. I missed black and green. I guess if you included pea as a color there could really be 13! Keep up the good work!
becky18567 Dec 08, 2006	i liked that one! it was easy and hard at the same time
celtic_knot Dec 08, 2006	Olive?! I don't think that's a good color. You should try to use more well known colors. But otherwise good.
phyllisa Dec 08, 2006	I really liked this one! I missed pink but put in Pea as in pea green. Good one!
Kelby Dec 09, 2006	I LOVE teasers like this! ! They make me excited. Submit more!
KAMEREONE Dec 09, 2006	Guess I wasn't the only one who saw the second 'red'! Aside from that, this was great fun, had to actually wake up to see it!
RRAMMOHAN Dec 10, 2006	Got all except Indigo. Fine teaser. WTG.
CSIFreke10190 Dec 10, 2006	Inju(RED) bothered me too.
zaya Dec 11, 2006	Nice one, missed olive and indigo, but found both reds so I thought I was only missing one.
vlerma Dec 16, 2006	Very nice job. I like word searches like this and for me it was very easy. You had a very nice theme to write about however. More please?
Qrystal Dec 18, 2006	I enjoyed that. I also saw two "red"s, noted that "peacock" is a colour, and can keep the others company in missing "olive"... but thinking I had 11 already (plus an extra red), I stopped looking. At one point though, just for fun, I decided to try looking backwards... and I saw poo!! That can be a colour too! (Oh dear. )
Qrystal Dec 18, 2006	OH yeah and: I appreciate seeing "colour" spelled that way! WOOHOO!
teen_wiz Feb 03, 2007	Qrystal... naughty, naughty... I also missed olive, but got the rest. Great job!!
doehead Dec 08, 2009	I guess all the little ones will enjoy this when they get home from school.Way to easy for anybody over 12.
warorpeace Dec 08, 2009	that was hard cause this is my first teaser @braingle
auntiesis Dec 08, 2009	Not too easy, not too hard. Just the way I like them.
emu77alu02 Dec 08, 2009	Olive stumped me! I was trying to find purple or white for the 11th. It was a really fun teaser!
patiencewithaP Dec 08, 2009	Fun even though I missed olive. Great job!
braingle100 Dec 08, 2009	I really liked this teaser, and I got Brown, Voilet, Pink, and another easy one.
braingle100 Dec 08, 2009	blue was the other one, sorry for double posting.
UptheHill Dec 08, 2009	Color Wonderful!!!
leroyleroy Dec 08, 2009	very colorful--its good
bookworm0812 Dec 08, 2009	Ummmm....puting red in here twice doesn't count as 11 colors, it's only 10!
elentir Dec 09, 2009	@ Bookworm - They weren't counting red twice. There are 11 unique colors listed above.
crocodile Aug 17, 2010	I loved this teaser! Easy Peesy, but if there really was a Toronto Range, I'd go there!
Babe Dec 08, 2012	Enjoyable one and challenging. Fun!
gaylewolf Dec 08, 2012	Fun! Thanks for posting.
lukasiwicz Dec 08, 2012	If one considers "pea" to be a color, there are 13 colors in the passage, not counting the dual occurrence of "red," and not counting the word "colour,": red, olive, orange, pink, indigo, vert (a shade of green), yellow, blue, brown, black, green, pea (another shade of green), and violet. So there.
cutebug Dec 08, 2012	A little too easy.
Caramell Dec 08, 2012	technically there is only 10 colors cos red has been used twice.
bestgirl Dec 08, 2012	This type is not my cup of tea, but I see a lot of people like them.
Maggiethe8th Dec 08, 2012	I only had energy/patience for the first 6 as I started my Saturday routine-loved the giggle feeling when I saw them! thank you!
iggy39 Dec 08, 2012	I thought it was well planned and fun. I missed indigo but I really enjoyed this one. Thx I was looking for other things too, like food or animals but didn't come up with a whole lot of either. Just really enjoyed this one. I said that didn't I