Venting! Why would you choose Topaz to be yellow

trewiltrewil
trewiltrewil Posts: 71 Match Maker
in MPQ General Discussion

Topaz is a stone that can be a bunch of colors, why is that the choice for yellow? That's the rarest color of Topaz, so it's not even the one people are used to? Seriously it's hard enough to figure out puzzles when they have good clues, but when the clues are just bad it makes it really frustrating!

Glad y'all did something different, but it needs more time to bake if you can't do full research!

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  • bigjojo04
    bigjojo04 Posts: 414 Mover and Shaker

    Yea that’s why i always wait for smarter people than me to do it first on here and post the results because my pea brain can never figure things like that out first.

  • ProfShoehorn
    ProfShoehorn Posts: 48 Just Dropped In
    edited October 2023

    Given the gemstone theme, yellow is really hard to represent. Would it cause more or less confusion to use citrine (only yellow gemstone a quick DuckDuckGo search that didn’t need a color modifier in the name)?

    Personally, I’d have to look up (or use process of elimination) for citrine but could rely on topaz=yellow from vidja gamez…

    Edit: Emeralds and Sapphires also come in a variety of colors (though the game uses the most common color variant for them, so less of an issue).

  • Nightglider1
    Nightglider1 Posts: 703 Critical Contributor

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    This sounds like someone who thinks there are Pink tiles in the game

    I’m colorblind so they look pink to me. 🤷‍♂️

  • will7612
    will7612 Posts: 99 Match Maker

    @Nightglider1 said:

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    This sounds like someone who thinks there are Pink tiles in the game

    I’m colorblind so they look pink to me. 🤷‍♂️

    I have always looked them up as PINK

  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,845 Chairperson of the Boards

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    This sounds like someone who thinks there are Pink tiles in the game

    There isn't????

  • mdreyer93
    mdreyer93 Posts: 144 Tile Toppler

    In Diablo, Topaz is yellow. Pretty standard for most gamers.

  • Wyntre
    Wyntre Posts: 49 Just Dropped In

    In real life, when I think of topaz gems, I always think of yellow.

  • TheWarDoctor
    TheWarDoctor Posts: 3 Just Dropped In

    I've always (in context of fantasy books and video games) heard of topaz as a yellow gem. Plus process of elimination makes it pretty obvious for this puzzle too.

  • Alfje17
    Alfje17 Posts: 3,813 Chairperson of the Boards

    @mdreyer93 said:
    In Diablo, Topaz is yellow. Pretty standard for most gamers.

    The only Topaz I know is the Hitcock film... I don't play many games and haven't played Diablo this millenium.

  • trewiltrewil
    trewiltrewil Posts: 71 Match Maker

    No, this was a terrible choice. At least use some other word to make it clear it is yellow.

  • Phumade
    Phumade Posts: 2,496 Chairperson of the Boards

    @trewiltrewil said:
    No, this was a terrible choice. At least use some other word to make it clear it is yellow.

    amarillo. Amarilla is your looking for the feminine conjugation.

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