Paint Hide

Match the floor color, stay still and slip away from the hunter.

Paint Hide gameplay preview

Progress is saved by this game in this browser. Use its own menu to pause.

Your first move: Watch the hunter’s route and the timing of its pauses before you move.

After a level: replay & next steps

Try the round again, refine one move or choose the next unlocked challenge. Personal bests stay inside each game.

How to play & controls

Paint Hide is a camouflage hide-and-seek puzzle set in a gallery courtyard. You play a small gel slime, and a cloaked hunter with a lantern walks a patrol through the yard. Four paint mats — coral, teal, indigo and gold — sit on the floor, and only some of them are active on each stage. Stand on an active mat in the matching colour and you are camouflaged; hold still long enough and the stage clears. Get caught in the wrong colour near the hunter’s light and you start again instantly. From stage 3, some green SAFE labels and glows are decoys, and the last stages move the safe mat while you watch. A seeded Daily Hide adds one new courtyard every day.

  1. Watch the hunter’s route and the timing of its pauses before you move.
  2. Walk to an active mat and paint yourself the same colour.
  3. Hold still on the mat until the hold meter fills to clear the stage.
  4. If you slip, the next attempt shows which labels were honest.

Move with WASD or the arrow keys. Press 1–4 to paint yourself coral, teal, indigo or gold, or click a paint zone. Touch the left half of the screen and drag to move: a joystick appears under your finger and follows it until you let go. Tap a paint mat or a colour swatch to paint yourself. Works in landscape and portrait.

30 stages + Daily Hide · Hub version 2.1.3+clarity.2

Tips & saving

The hunter ignores you when you match an active mat, even inside its light.

Paint before you arrive, not after — repainting takes a moment.

Labels that say SAFE are cues, not promises. The colour of the active mat is what counts.

On the moving-mat stages, follow the mat and keep the hold meter running.

Play today’s Daily Hide for one seeded courtyard that matches everyone else’s — clear it on the day to grow your streak.

Game progress belongs to this browser and this address. Use the game’s own save tools where available. Changing addresses or clearing browser data does not transfer your save.

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Common questions

Is Paint Hide free?

Yes. It runs in the browser with no account and no in-game purchases.

How many stages are there?

30 stages on one gallery courtyard, with one hunter and up to four active mats, plus a Daily Hide.

Is there a daily puzzle?

Yes. The Daily Hide is one seeded courtyard per local calendar day, the same for everyone, and every one is checked solvable. Play it from the title screen or on our Daily page.

Can I play Paint Hide on a phone?

Yes. Drag on the left half of the screen to move with a floating joystick, and tap a mat or a colour swatch to paint. It works in landscape and portrait. It is a 3D game, so a recent phone runs it most smoothly.

Is a sequel coming?

Yes — Paint Hide 2: Snow Courtyard is live on this site, with footprints, trail-breaking and a Daily.