Lost & Found

Lost & Found is a calm, cosy hidden object game. Each of its twelve scenes is a big picture you can drag around and zoom into — a dusty attic with a round window, a striped market stall, a garage with a pegboard full of tools, a beach hut, a kitchen, a toy room, a library with a crackling fire, a garden shed, a train station, a bakery, a campsite at dusk and a theatre backstage. Every scene holds eighty to one hundred and twenty things drawn by hand: teacups, keys, umbrellas, boots, clocks, cameras, fruit, toys, tools and more than a hundred other objects in different colours.

The list at the bottom shows eight things to find, each with a little picture and its name. Some sit on a shelf in plain view, some are turned on their side or tucked half behind something else, but they are never completely covered. Tap one and it sparkles, chimes and flies to the list. A tap on the wrong thing adds one second to the clock and gives the list a little shake. Stuck? The hint button circles the area where one of the missing things is hiding, then needs twenty seconds to recharge.

Play Classic to work through the scenes in order, finish under par for three stars and open the next room. The daily scene is picked from the date, so everyone gets the same room and the same list until midnight — a nice little brain warm-up with your morning coffee. And when you just want to relax, Zen mode has no clock and no penalties at all. Every scene is laid out the same way each time you visit, but the list changes, so there is always something new to find. Your stars, best times and opened scenes are saved on your device.