Hidden Cats

Somewhere in a busy, hand-drawn scene, a dozen cats are hiding. One is curled up on a bookshelf, one is peeking out of a cardboard box, one has crept behind the washing on a rooftop and left its tail sticking out. Your job is to find every one of them as fast as you can. There is a new scene every day, the same for everyone, so you can compare times with friends.

How to play

• Drag to look around the scene. Pinch, scroll the mouse wheel, double-tap or use the + and − buttons to zoom.
• Tap a cat when you spot it. It gets a gold ring, gives a little meow and twitches its ears. The counter at the top shows how many are left.
• The map in the corner shows the whole scene and where you are looking. Tap it to jump somewhere else.
• The clock starts with your first touch and stops when the last cat is found.

Look before you tap

Every wrong tap adds five seconds to your time, and three wrong taps within two seconds make you squint: for two seconds your taps don't count. Tapping everywhere is always slower than looking. Finding cats quickly one after another builds a streak, which is purely for the joy of it.

Hints

Stuck? After a minute and a half without finding a cat, the hint button glows and gives you one free hint. More hints are available by watching a short ad. A hint slides the view to an area and circles it: the cat is somewhere inside the circle, but you still have to spot it.

Daily scene, archive and free play

The daily scene changes at midnight and rotates through six places: rooftops at dusk, a market street, a cosy library, a beach boardwalk, a garden party and a maker's workshop. Finish it to keep your streak going and share your time. Missed a day? The archive keeps the last seven days. Free play makes a brand new scene every time, with three levels: Easy has ten cats in bright coats, Normal has twelve, and Hard hides fifteen cats whose coats match their surroundings.

Tips

• Sweep the scene in strips, left to right, the way you would read a page.
• Cats love boxes, baskets, pots, windowsills, shelves and the tops of things. Check behind curtains, sheets and tablecloths for a tail.
• Look for ears and eyes: a cat the same colour as a pile of books still has two pointy ears.