How to play Color Dash

Hop a ball up through spinning four-colour rings, passing only through the arc that matches the colour you are right now.

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Color Dash is a one-tap climbing game with a single rule: you may only pass through the part of an obstacle that matches your own colour.

The rules

Your ball has a colour. Every ring above you is split into four spinning arcs, each a different colour, and only the arc matching your colour will let you through. Touching any other arc ends the run.

Tap to hop upward. Every ring you clear is a point, and the rings spin faster as you climb.

A ring is two decisions, not one

This is the thing that makes the game harder than it first looks.

You enter a ring at the bottom of the circle and leave at the top — and it keeps spinning the whole time you are inside it. So a gap that was open when you committed can rotate closed while you are passing through.

The consequence is that you should never time your hop against where the ring is. You time it against where the ring will be when you reach the far side. On a fast ring, that means committing when your colour is still short of the entry point, because it will have arrived by the time you get there.

Beginners who jump when the colour lines up perfectly are consistently a fraction of a rotation late, and that is the whole difficulty curve of the game in one sentence.

The colour changers

Small four-colour dots sit between the rings and repaint you at random as you pass.

So your colour is not a constant you can plan around. After every changer you have to check what you have become before committing to the next gap — and the natural rhythm of "hop, hop, hop" is exactly what stops you looking.

The practical habit is to pause at a changer. There is no timer pushing you upward, so a beat spent confirming your new colour costs nothing and prevents the most common death in the game.

Rhythm and speed

The rings spin faster the higher you climb, which shortens the window and lengthens the lead you have to give.

Because the game has no forward pressure, the correct pace is much slower than it feels. There is no reward for climbing quickly, only for climbing far, so waiting a full rotation for a comfortable entry is always better than taking a marginal one.

What actually ends runs

Almost never a genuinely impossible ring. It is nearly always one of two things: hopping on the colour rather than ahead of it, or forgetting to check what colour a changer just made you.

Controls

Tap, click, or press Space to hop upward. That is the only control — everything else is timing.

Strategy tips

Hop ahead of your colour, not on it. The ring keeps turning while you cross it, so you have to commit while your colour is still short of the entry point.
Treat every ring as two moments. You enter at the bottom and leave at the top, and the arc that was open at the bottom may not be at the top.
Stop at every colour changer. Nothing is chasing you, and confirming what you have become costs nothing while assuming it costs the run.
Wait for a comfortable entry. There is no reward for speed, so passing on a marginal gap and taking the next rotation is always correct.
Give more lead as you climb. Faster rings mean a longer gap between committing and arriving, so the timing that worked ten rings ago is late now.
Watch the arc approaching, not the one in front of you. By the time your colour is in front of you it is already too late to use it.
Slow down deliberately when you feel a rhythm forming. The natural hop-hop-hop cadence is what stops people checking their colour.
Expect the deaths to be your timing, not the ring. Almost nothing here is impossible — it is nearly always a hop taken a fraction late.