This might be an interesting thought experiment on language.
Or perhaps on how our minds read groups of words.
Could also have psychological aspects, or something.

Philosophically, the ability to see the relationships between things, and subtle grades of difference is essential. Seeing everything as black and white is not only boring and inaccurate,
but may be at the root of fallacies and biases… and perhaps conflicts.

Anyhow…

The ‘rules’ of the experiment:

Come up with a list of anything.

Then put it in some kind of order, a ‘spectrum in word form’.

An example:
Yellow - Amber - Orange - Vermilion - Red - Magenta - Purple -
Violet - Blue - Teal - Green - Chartreuse - Yellow …
(The primary, secondary, and tertiary colors in the order of color wheel.)

Another example:
coffee - breakfast - brunch - morning tea - second breakfast - elevenses - lunch -
late lunch - afternoon tea - dinner - supper - milk - midnight snack …
(Meals and snacks in chronological order, with help from a handful of hungry Hobbits).

The name of the list could be included… or not included (if it’s to be a riddle).

Example of a riddle spectrum:
Glass Onion - Penny Lane - Help - Love Me Do - Revolution #9 - It’s All Too Much
(Songs by the Beatles. But in what order? Alphabetical? No. Chronological? No…
Top 6 personal favorite songs? Not really… Shortest to longest? No, it’s random;
but you get the idea).

A fairly simple experiment / game… but oy, the infinite varieties and variations. The mind boggles.

If this somehow reminds you of some other linguistic, logic, or mathematical concepts…
please share, explain, and discuss.

I would say that it’s better not to make the lists too political, controversial, or oddly perverse…

( …but I don’t want to lie).

Ok… ready… set… take a nap… have a snack… GO! Spectrum all the things! :nerd: