A plurality say mystery is purple. Click a color to add your vote.
Mystery is purple because…
“Well, magic is purple and magic is mysterious. Also magenta is a type of purple and starts with M. Also fortune stuff is relating to mystery, and fortune I would say is purple.”
“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…
“Because black is empty, and empty is nothing, and nothingness is a mystery.”
“Because black is darkness, and in the darkness is the unknown, and the unknown is a mystery.”
“Things that are in the dark remain a mystery.”
“Unable to see.”
“You can’t see into the shadows, so whatever is in there feels like a mystery.”
“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…
“Mystery is grey because it is not common and is usually used in secretive stuff.”
“Grey is a shadow.
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“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…
“Like an old-fashioned detective.”
“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.”