How to play

Pick a number, tap the shapes that match, and watch the picture fill in.

The basics

1. Open today's picture or choose one from the list on the home page. Pictures come in Easy, Medium and Hard, which differ by how many shapes they have.
2. Choose a numbered color in the palette. Its shapes light up with a soft stripe, and the small number under the swatch says how many are left.
3. Tap a shape to paint it.
4. When a number is used up, its swatch shows a check mark and the next unfinished color is picked for you.
5. Paint every shape and the outlines melt away, leaving the finished picture.

Only shapes of the selected number take paint. Tap a shape with another number and it flashes and the game tells you which number it needs. That counts against your accuracy, and nothing is ever painted wrongly.

Finding small shapes

• On a phone: pinch to zoom and drag with one finger to move around.
• With a mouse: scroll to zoom, drag to move, and use Fit to return to the whole picture.
• On a keyboard or touchscreen laptop: Zoom in and Zoom out work as buttons too.
• Lost a shape? When numbers get too small to read, shapes of your color are marked with a small ring. Zoom in and the number appears.

Other things you can do

• Preview shows the finished picture for a moment. Tap it to go back.
• Undo removes your last shape and goes back to that color. Start over clears the picture.
• The daily picture keeps a gentle streak: finish it each day to grow your streak. A long streak earns a spare day that covers a missed one.
• Time and accuracy are measured for each finished picture. The clock only runs while you are painting and pauses during long breaks.
• Challenge a friend after you finish: send a link with your time and accuracy, and they paint the same picture.
• Gallery and backup: finished pictures go in your gallery, where you can also export a code to move your progress to another device.

Questions

Do I need to finish in one sitting?

No. Progress is saved in your browser, and the home page lists pictures to keep painting.

Why will a shape not paint?

It belongs to a different number. The message on the board tells you which one, or check the numbers in the palette.

Can I play with the keyboard alone?

Not fully. The palette and buttons work from the keyboard, but painting a shape needs a mouse, touch or pen.

Why did my old picture disappear?

The game was rebuilt around shapes instead of a grid of squares, so older saved paintings no longer apply and were cleared. Your daily streak was kept. Clearing your browser's site data also removes saved paintings.