One Pixel
Ten thousand pixels. One guess a day.
A minimalist daily guessing game. One pixel is hidden on a shared board of ten thousand, and every player in the world gets one guess at it per day.
How a day goes
- Look. The board is 100 × 100 pixels, and it is the same board for everyone. Somewhere on it is today's pixel.
- Choose. Pan across the grid, zoom in, pick a pixel. With the mouse or entirely from the keyboard.
- Commit. Confirm, and that is your day. There is no second try and no hint, not even whether you were close.
- Wait. When the day turns over, the answer is revealed, a new pixel is hidden, and the board opens again.
Why only one guess
A choice has to mean something. With unlimited tries you would sweep the board. With one, you have to decide what you believe: the middle, where everyone else will look, or the corner nobody would pick.
The odds are honest. One in ten thousand. Most days you miss, and the game says so plainly. That is exactly what makes the day you don't worth waiting for.
Everyone hunts the same pixel. Which makes it a question you can ask anyone who plays: where did you go today?
Showing up is the game. Your streak counts the days you played, not the days you won. A minute a day is enough to keep it.
In the game
- An archive of every finished day, with your guess, the winning pixel and the distance between them.
- Your streak and lifetime totals, and seven Steam achievements, from your first guess to a thirty-day streak.
- Playable from start to finish with the keyboard alone.
- A miss is a shape as well as a colour, so red against green is never the only difference.
- Your settings follow you between computers through Steam Cloud.
- No ads, and no way to buy a better chance.