Art Bay
The studio's paintings, three ways to play: paint them by number, piece them together as jigsaws, or search them for clues.
Today's main game
Paint by number
Paint by number · 248 sheets
Painting Vault
Pick up a brush: tap a number and peel the real painting, region by region. Easy, Normal or Hard, with scores, badges and a leaderboard.
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Other Games
Jigsaw · Crime Scenes
Puzzle table · 248 pictures
Jigsaw
Tip the box out on the table: the studio's paintings as Easy 48, Normal 96 or Hard 192-piece puzzles.
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Case files
Crime Scenes
Lights low, ten painted crime scenes. Spot every clue, beat the par time, earn three stars.
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Painting Vault
Tap a number and peel the real painting, region by region, not a flat flood fill. 100 paintings, three paths. Each painting is worth 37.5, 75 or 131.25 points by path, +25% if flawless; wrong taps stack up.
Choose your path
Same subjects, three ways to paintScored like a whole Cipher Vault puzzle: every painting is worth 75 points, times ×0.5 on Easy, ×1 on Normal, ×1.75 on Hard. Lose no points for a +25% flawless bonus. Wrong taps in a row cost 1, then 2, then 3 (a correct fill resets it). Hard adds pinch-zoom and +10% for finishing under par. Your best score per sheet counts; Repaint costs a quarter of the sheet's points.
Painting History
Paintings you've finished on this device. Tap one to see its summary or Repaint it.
Your paintings
Normal · 0 paintedPaintings you finish show up here.
Badges
Earned from real paintings on this device. Perfect-game badges count on every finish, Repaints included. Badges stay unlocked.
Painting badges
0 / 0Classic badges
0 / 52
Classic badges
0 / 52Leaderboard
Total score = best score on every sheet, minus Repaint costs.
Instructions
- Pick a color. Tap a numbered chip at the bottom of the painting.
- Tap the shapes with that number. Each one peels away to show the real painting.
- Finished colors disappear from the palette, and the next color is picked for you.
- Zoom when you need to. Pinch or drag; on Hard use + and −. The corner button fits the whole picture.
- Score. A painting is worth 37.5 / 75 / 131.25 points on Easy / Normal / Hard, +25% with no wrong taps. Wrong taps in a row cost 1, then 2, then 3.
Full rules
What this is: a painting is hidden under numbered shapes. Pick a color, tap the matching shapes, and the real art peels through, not a flat flood fill.
How to paint: choose a color chip at the bottom; only that number paints while it is selected. Nearby taps snap to your color so thin lines do not block you. Finished colors gray out. Keep going until every region is peeled.
Paths:
- Easy: flat art, about 12 colors, big shapes.
- Normal: painterly art, 24 to 30 colors.
- Hard: the Normal art cut into 30 to 40 colors, pinch-zoom, and a par time. Finish at or under par for +13.13.
Score: like a whole Cipher Vault puzzle, each painting is worth a fixed amount, whatever its size: 37.5 on Easy (×0.5), 75 on Normal (×1), 131.25 on Hard (×1.75). Finish without losing a point for +25% (top scores 46.88 / 93.75 / 164.06). Wrong taps stack: 1 point, then 2, then 3 for each miss in a row, until a correct fill resets the count; a sheet never goes below 0. Your best score on each sheet is what counts. Your total is the sum of your best scores, minus Repaint costs.
Repaint: start a sheet over, even a finished one, to chase a flawless run or beat par. It costs a quarter of the sheet's points (9.38 Easy, 18.75 Normal, 32.81 Hard; the sheet shows the cost before you confirm). Your best score stays on record, and a perfect repaint still earns its badges.
Saving: guest play needs no account and saves on this device; an accidental refresh keeps your peel. Sign in to keep one player name across Moon Vault, Cipher Vault and Art Bay. 10 Painting points = 1 Moon toward the other vaults.
Rules: family-friendly Mesa & Moon game, same house as Cipher, Moon, Nine and Tally Vault.