How to play
Every day there is one hidden picture, the same for everyone. It starts as a coarse 4×4 mosaic of average colors.
- Tap a tile to split it into four finer tiles. You choose where. Edges and busy areas tell you more than flat backgrounds.
- Type a guess whenever you recognize it, even before your first pop.
- Score = pops used + 2 for each wrong guess. Lower is better. Zero pops is the best possible score.
A wrong guess does not sharpen the picture. Words that are not in the game's word list are not counted as a miss. Five wrong guesses, or Give up, ends the puzzle. You can split tiles down to a 16×16 grid, up to 80 pops.
A weekly theme is shown above the board. The length of the answer is never shown.
The share map
Your result is a spoiler-free 4×4 map of where you spent your pops, not of the picture:
- ⬜ that area stayed at the opening 4×4
- 🟦 at least one pop there (it reached 8×8 in places)
- ⬛ heavily refined (it reached 16×16 in places)
After you finish you can see everyone's pop heatmap and today's median score.
Keyboard
Arrow keys move between tiles, Enter or Space splits the focused tile, Tab reaches the guess box, Enter submits. Pinch to zoom works on touch screens.