Play Hue Flood online
Hue Flood is a flood-fill puzzle: your flood starts in the top-left corner of a 10x10 board of six colors.
Pick a color and the flooded region changes to it, absorbing every neighboring cell of that color.
Grow the region until all 100 cells share one color, within the level's move budget.
Five seeded boards, each with a move budget of 30 to 32 moves. Clear all five to win; run out of moves and the flood stalls.
How to control Hue Flood
- Pick a color: keys 1-6, click a palette swatch, or click a board cell of that color
- M: mute
- P: pause
- Enter: start / restart
How to play
- 1
Your flood starts in the top-left corner of a 10x10 board with six colors, shown with a white outline.
- 2
Pick a color with keys 1-6, a palette swatch, or by clicking a board cell of that color. The whole flooded region changes to it and absorbs neighboring cells of that color.
- 3
Grow the region until all 100 cells share one color, within the level's move budget.
- 4
Clear all five levels to win. Running out of moves on any level ends the game. Leftover moves bank 20 points each plus 500 per cleared level, and your best score is saved in your browser.
Tips for a better run
Each move, count the border: the color touching the most region-edge cells usually gains the most ground.
Picking your region's current color does nothing and costs no move, so you can never misclick into a wasted turn.
A color that only touches one corner cell is a trap early on — save it for when your region wraps around it.
Clearing a level with moves to spare banks 20 points per leftover move, so efficient floods score higher.
When two colors tie for border length, pick the one whose cells also touch each other — chains absorb in a single move.
Frequently asked questions
How do I play?
Your flood starts in the top-left corner. Pick a color and the whole flooded region changes to it, absorbing any neighboring cells of that color. Grow the region until all 100 cells share one color.
Any strategy tips?
Each move, pick the color that absorbs the most new cells — usually the color touching the longest stretch of your region's border. Avoid spending a move on a color that only touches one or two cells.
Is Hue Flood a copy of another game?
No. Hue Flood is fully original: the flood-fill puzzle, the five seeded boards, and all code, art, and audio are original works. It takes the general flood-fill puzzle genre as inspiration but references no existing games, films, or franchises.
