Colour Blender

**Colour Blender** is a challenge of visual intelligence on *Canada's Smartest Person*.

## Description

Here's how it works: A set of colours will drop on the screen. You must use your visual intelligence to identify which new colour is created by combining them. The competitor with the most correct answers wins the challenge.

## Episode 303

Colour Blender was the sole challenge of visual intelligence and the third challenge overall. Jessi Cruickshank explained to the contestants that the contestant in 1st place would earn 5 overall points, the contestant in 2nd place would earn 3, the contestant in 3rd place would earn 2, and the contestant in last place would earn 1. She then explained to the viewers the instructions and how they could play along with the contestants using CSP SmartPlay as found on the show's Facebook page.

In the first and second rounds, contestants had to identify the resulting colour of two shades dropped on the screen. In the third, fourth, and fifth rounds, contestants had to do the opposite, which was to identify the two shades used given the resulting colour.

In the first round, two shades of green and yellow were dropped. The four choices for the resulting colour in hexadecimal format were #459944, #998E2C, #944421, and #75A22B, with #75A22B being the correct answer. Ryan Coelho, Maria Samson, and Vanessa Vakharia chose the correct resulting colour while Frankie Cena failed to do so.

In the second round, two shades of yellow and magenta were dropped. The four choices for the resulting colour in hexadecimal format were #B6742D, #C248D1, #A32A5C, and #9D221E, with #B6742D being the correct answer. Again, Ryan, Maria, and Vanessa chose the correct resulting colour while Frankie failed to do so.

In the third round, the resulting colour in hexadecimal format was #6E6576. The seven choices for the two shades used were magenta, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and cyan, with orange and blue being the correct answer. None of the contestants chose the correct shade pairing.

In the fourth round, the resulting colour in hexadecimal format was #F3CCA1. The eight choices for the two shades used were magenta, red, orange, yellow, white, green, cyan, and blue, with orange and white being the correct answer. Frankie and Maria chose the correct shade pairing while Ryan and Vanessa failed to do so.

In the final round, the resulting colour in hexadecimal format was #3D9186. The six choices for the two shades used were magenta, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, with green and blue being the correct answer. Frankie, Maria, and Vanessa chose the correct shade pairing while Ryan failed to do so.

In total, Frankie got 2 correct answers, Ryan got 2, Maria got 4, and Vanessa got 3. The tie between Frankie and Ryan was settled by how quickly they answered. Since Frankie answered faster on average than Ryan did in the challenge, the former finished in 3rd place and the latter finished in last place. Therefore, Maria was awarded 5 overall points for finishing in 1st place, Vanessa was awarded 3 for finishing in 2nd place, Frankie was awarded 2 for finishing in 3rd place, and Ryan was awarded 1 for finishing in last place.

### Summary of Results

 **1st** | **Maria Samson** | 4
 **2nd** | **Vanessa Vakharia** | 3
 **3rd**

 **4th**

 Maximum Possible

### Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Despite sharing a total score of 2, Frankie answered faster on average than Ryan did in the challenge. Therefore, Frankie and Ryan placed 3rd and 4th, respectively, for this challenge.