Hide and Paint

Hide and Paint is a disguise game played against a countdown. A coloured "environment" wall is painted at the top of the screen and a Seeker starts scanning it. Paint yourself to match that wall and you disappear into it.

There is no paint pot and no mixing: the palette at the bottom of the screen holds four to eight swatches, exactly one of which matches the wall. Tap the match, or press its number, before the scan bar empties. A clean match scores, extends your combo and fills in the wall behind you; a wrong swatch or a timeout gets you SPOTTED, costs one of your three lives, and repaints the board with a new colour, so guessing your way through the palette does not work.

The read changes as the run goes on. Rounds one to three only ask about colour. From round four the wall gains a texture — stripes or dots — and the palette contains a swatch of exactly the right colour with the wrong texture, so matching the hue alone is a trap. From round seven a Seeker sweep crosses the wall and the palette reshuffles its positions every seven tenths of a second, so the match has to be re-found rather than remembered.

Clear ten scans to win. The palette grows every three rounds, up to eight swatches, and the scan window shortens every round. Easy, Medium and Hard set how many swatches you start with and how far apart the decoy hues sit: 24, 18 and 14 degrees from the target. Your best score and win streak are saved in this browser, and a streak unlocks the Neon and Pastel palettes.