Spot the Anomaly

Look closely. More than one thing is out of place.

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Community: Spot the Anomaly

Tips, records and questions from other players.

How to play

Find every out-of-place object and click directly on it. The counter shows your progress. Only the names of objects you have found are revealed; the picture never highlights answers.

Choose any of the 36 campaign scenes or play six seeded daily or practice scenes. Enlarge and scroll for details. Arrows move the crosshair; Enter selects. Progress stays in this browser.

Scenes and difficulty

Each campaign scene is a single detailed illustration — a morning bakery, a fishing harbor, a Victorian apothecary, a medieval scriptorium — with modern everyday objects slipped into it. Across the 36 scenes there are 281 anomalies to find. The label above each picture shows its difficulty: Discover scenes hide four or five objects, Observe scenes six to eight, and Investigate scenes ten to twenty.

The levels roughly follow that curve, and the last two, the apothecary and the scriptorium, each hide the full twenty. A scene counts as solved only when the counter reaches its total, so a single missed object keeps it open.

Levels, daily challenge and practice

In Levels mode every scene is open from the start. The Scenes menu lists all 36, marks finished ones with a check and shows how many you have completed. Your current level and solved scenes are stored in this browser’s local storage, not in an account. The daily challenge deals six scenes from the full set: everyone gets the same six on the same UTC day, and the selection changes at midnight UTC. Practice deals a random set of six, and New practice game shuffles another. Share challenge copies a link: from Levels it opens the same scene, from the other modes it reproduces the same six-scene set.

Tips for spotting anomalies

The intruders are things that do not fit the setting rather than tiny edits to the drawing: game controllers, rubber ducks, tennis balls, computer mice, smartphones and staplers turn up again and again, often tucked among similar shapes. Scan the picture in strips — left to right, top to bottom — instead of jumping around, and look for bright plastic colors that clash with wood, glass or stone. Use Enlarge on busy scenes; dragging to scroll the enlarged picture does not count as a click. Hits are checked against the object’s traced outline, so aim at the object itself rather than its shadow.

If you enjoy careful looking, train your recall with Memory Match, see how quickly you respond in the Reaction Time Test, or recognize locations in the CS2 Map Quiz.

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Spot the Anomaly – FAQ

How many scenes are there?

Each of the 36 scenes contains several misplaced objects. The hardest scenes contain 20. Find them all to complete the scene.

Is there a time limit?

No. Explore at your own pace. Use Enlarge and scroll to inspect small details.

Do wrong clicks cost points?

No. A click that misses only shows a short Keep looking message and a brief marker. There is no penalty, no lives and no timer, and clicking an object you already found simply reminds you that it is found.

Can I play with a keyboard?

Yes. Focus the picture and use the arrow keys to move the crosshair, hold Shift to move it faster, and press Enter or Space to select. Escape hides the crosshair.

Is my progress saved?

Level progress and solved scenes are saved in this browser on this device. If you clear site data or switch browsers, you start again from level 1.

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