Cat Hunt

Cat Hunt is a find-the-cat game in the busy picture-book tradition. Every scene is one huge illustration packed with well over a hundred people, animals and props: a city square with a fountain, a sunny beach, a ski resort, a train station, a carnival, a zoo, a shopping street, a harbour, a music festival, a farm fair, a space station, a castle feast, a water park, a grand library and a night market. Somewhere in each one, eight cats are hiding. One peeks out of a window, one sits on a roof next to the chimney, one is curled up in a basket, one is tucked in behind somebody's legs, and one is wearing a hat and hoping nobody notices.

Drag to look around, zoom in with the buttons, a pinch or the mouse wheel, and tap a cat when you spot it: it meows, and a paw print stamps its face on the counter at the top. A minimap in the corner shows where you are in the picture. Every cat is a proper little drawing that is never more than partly hidden, so a sharp eye always wins. If you get stuck, the hint button sends a ripple of paw prints close to one of the cats, with three hints per scene and a short wait between them. While you look, keep an eye on the little jokes in the crowd: a dog taking its owner for a walk, a dropped ice cream, a goat eating somebody's hat.

Scenes open one after another, and each one earns up to three stars for a quick time and few hints, so there is always a reason to come back and beat your best. The daily scene hides the cats in new places every day, the same for everyone, which makes it a nice little brain workout with your morning coffee. And if you would rather simply relax, Free Look lets you wander through any scene you have opened with no clock at all. Your stars, best times and opened scenes are saved in your browser.