What color is mystery?
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A plurality say mystery is purple.
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Mystery is purple because…
- “Magic is purple, and magic is a part of mystery.”
- “The Riddler is green, but his question mark is purple.”
- “Mystery is purple becuase purple is usually ascossioated with magic and magic is, well, yeah, mysterious.”
- “Purple is one of the most prevalent colors in Scooby Doo, a show about mystery.”
- “Because purple is just psychologically associated with mystery. Like if someone is wearing purple, they’re the mysterious villain.”
- “It seems mysterious like fortune tellers or witches.”
- “It appears rarely and its often associated with magic, which is often kind of mysterious.”
Mystery is black because…
- “Its black because it reminds me of old timey mystery movies.”
- “Black like shadows—you don’t know what’s inside.”
- “Ominous.”
- “You can’t see into the dark, and you can’t see into a mystery.”
- “Its dark, shadowy with no light to illuminate what it could be hiding.”
- “It’s sneaky and sly like black.”
- “It is mysterious and spooky.”
- “Black is dark, mysteries are shrouded into darkness.”
- “Mystery is black because it’s shrouded in shadow.”
- “I think of a giant, black question mark everyone draws when something is mysterious.”
- “Black is the color of darkness, and the dark is mysterious.”
Mystery is grey because…
- “Grey is ambiguous, in-between black and white. ”
- “Grey mist, grey clouds—all hiding something.”
- “Mixture of everything and nothing.”
- “Detective movies are always greyscale.”
- “Fog is grey, and fog is mysterious.”
- “Grey areas.”
Mystery is brown because…
- “Detective characters often wear brown. The whole genre is associated with brown.”
- “Brown is the colour of mystique, and Sherlock Holmes. And old stuff.”
Mystery is red because…
- “A murder mystery most likely has blood, and blood is red.”
- “I think it’s red because theater curtains are red, and in all mystery things, you have to look behind the curtain.”
Mystery is blue because…
- “Mystery is blue because the word ‘fantasy’ is midnight blue, and the two words are very closely correlated.”