Colors Going Clockwise

Solution

The first step is to identify where each set of colors originates from. As the flavor text states, we only count modules from 2017 or earlier. The digits in the middle of each circle are also an enumeration for each module's name (i.e. tells you how many letters are in each word).

Colors	Enumeration	Module
	5	Wires
	54	Simon Says
	65	Colour Flash
	5234	Mouse in the Maze
	6	Murder
	65	Rubik's Cube

In each circle, only one of the numbers in the enumeration are filled in. Notice how this matches up with the number of colors in each circle. This suggests we only consider those words. Now we consider which color is in the middle of each circle. This color is assigned a number depending on where it appears on the outer portion of the circle, with north being 1 and increasing clockwise. Finally, we use these digits to index into our words, leading to the answer.

Digit	Word	Color	Index	Letter
5	WIRES		5	S
4	SAYS		2	A
6	COLOUR		3	L
4	MAZE		2	A
6	MURDER		1	M
6	RUBIK'S		4	I

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