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The Shadow Thief

The Shadow Thief

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Overview

Three in the morning. The alarm at the Nocturne Gallery went off and fell silent at once. The paintings are all in place, but the shadows are gone: the silhouettes of the people have been cut out and dumped in one tangled heap on the restorer's workbench. Recognise every figure in the tangle and paint it whole in a single colour — including the parts hidden under other shadows. Once a shadow is recognised, it flies back into its frame. • 9 famous paintings: Holbein, Repin, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, David and more. • 4 halls of rising difficulty — from three figures to a dozen intertwined silhouettes. • A calm night-museum atmosphere and gentle music: every colour sounds its own note. • Hints, a close-up of the reference painting and board zoom. • Progress is saved automatically.

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  2. Follow the in-game instructions

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Game instructions

The black holes in the reference painting are the stolen shadows. On the workbench the same figures lie tangled and piled on top of each other. Pick a colour and paint every part of one figure, including the places other figures cover. Paint different figures in different colours. When a figure is painted whole and its colour appears nowhere else, the shadow returns to the painting. Computer: left mouse button — paint, right button — erase or drag the board, wheel — zoom. Phone: tap — paint, two fingers — zoom and move the board, the eraser is in the palette. “Unpainted” highlights empty areas; “Hint” shows what the figure in the selected colour still lacks.

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