by Matt Gruskin
Answer: CHROMATOSE
Answers Used
  • CANARY ISLANDS
  • EXOTIC SHORTHAIR
  • INDUSTRIAL WASTE
  • RELIEF PITCHER
  • TWILIGHT STRUGGLE
  • CHERRY BLOSSOM
  • CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
  • FIRE CODE
  • JAZZ HANDS
  • ZEPHYR TEACHOUT

Each answer is a two word phrase. Each first word is contained in the name of exactly one Roscolux filter color. The website http://us.rosco.com/en/mycolor can be used to look up these colors and get some data about them. The specific pieces of data needed are each color’s Rxxx number, and their Source A (the tungsten source, as clued by the flavortext) chromaticity x/y values.

Each color’s x/y value can be used to look up a number in the provided chromaticity plot. Using these numbers as indices into the second word of each answer, and ordering the extracted letters by Roscolux filter number, gives the answer CHROMATOSE.

First answer word Roscolux number Source A (x) Source A (y) Index from Grid Second answer word
FIRE 19 0.659 0.339 1 CODE
EXOTIC 39 0.584 0.268 2 SHORTHAIR
TWILIGHT 75 0.173 0.343 3 STRUGGLE
ZEPHYR 84 0.229 0.258 6 TEACHOUT
CHOCOLATE 99 0.503 0.404 1 MOUSSE
CANARY 312 0.531 0.458 4 ISLANDS
RELIEF 313 0.529 0.443 3 PITCHER
CHERRY 332 0.617 0.329 3 BLOSSOM
JAZZ 348 0.451 0.255 5 HANDS
INDUSTRIAL 3150 0.488 0.428 5 WASTE