A plurality say the number twenty-one is blue. Click a color to add your vote.
The number twenty-one is blue because…
“The wavelenght of blue light is around 420 nanometers and 21*20 is 420.”
“21 feels cool somehow, and cool is blue.”
“When I think of 21, I think of math. Math is blue.”
The number twenty-one is red because…
“‘All Too Well’ and ‘The Moment I Knew’ by Taylor Swift are about Jake Gyllenhaal missing Taylor Swift’s 21st birthday. They are both on the album ‘Red.’”
“If high school jock was a number, this would be it. And I associate them with red and white sweaters, and red is the main color, therefore 21 is red.”
“Taylor Swift.”
“Black jack of hearts.”
The number twenty-one is yellow because…
“I think of how 21 as a birthday is a big celebration, which feels golden.”
“Because yellow is happiness and 21 is when you’re finally free from childhood restrictions.”
“Twenty one is a multiple of 7, the lucky number. 21 divided by seven is also 3, and the 3rd color of the rainbow is yellow.”
The number twenty-one is orange because…
“Two is yellow and one is black, so twenty-one is like a darker yellow, or a yellower black? I think orange matches that.”
“Orange is a not a common colour, and twenty-one is a unlucky number.”
The number twenty-one is black because…
“Blackjack.”
“Black jack.”
“Blackjack.”
“It’s the color of pencil lead, and usually you use pencil to write numbers.
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“Black jack. Duh.”
The number twenty-one is green because…
“It’s 3x7, which both give off green vibes.”
The number twenty-one is pink because…
“21 is youthful, like pink.”
The number twenty-one is purple because…
“2 is blue and 1 is red, so 21 is purple.”
The number twenty-one is brown because…
“In my home state of Illinois, you can legally drink at 21 years old, and I associate drinks with the color brown.”
“Because 21 is the age your able to drink, and beer is brown.”
“Blue for twenty and red for one, but quite often when you mix them it looks brown and not purple because you don’t have the exact hue. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk on bad color theory.”
The number twenty-one is white because…
“21 is so random that it could be any color, and technically white is all the colors.”
“W is closest to 21 in alphabet and I didn’t see a color starting with the letter U.”