Where Are the Puffies?

The pitch

Tiny Puffies. Big hiding places. Explore 30 cozy, illustrated scenes in this hidden-object game, from leafy gardens to star-filled workshops. Look closely: playful little Puffies are tucked among books, plants and everyday treasures. Tap each one to reveal its color and watch your collection grow. Meet 10 lovable characters, complete their scenes and collect their portraits in your album. Zoom in, move around the picture and enjoy the search without a countdown. Stuck on one sneaky Puffie? A hint can help you spot it. A warm, charming seek-and-find adventure for a quick break or one more cozy level. Play with touch or mouse, in portrait or landscape. Available in English and Russian.

Controls & how it runs

Find every hidden Puffie in the picture to complete the level. The counter in the top-left corner shows how many you have found. On a computer: click a Puffie to find it, hold and drag to move around the scene, and use the mouse wheel to zoom. On a phone or tablet: tap a Puffie, drag to explore, and pinch with two fingers to zoom. Tap carefully: a wrong tap costs a heart. Use the lightbulb button when you need a hint. Complete all three scenes for a character to add its portrait to your album. Open the top-right menu to adjust sound, music and language, or return to the main menu.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Where Are the Puffies? — quick-fire questions

Does Where Are the Puffies? cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Where Are the Puffies??

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Where Are the Puffies? on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Where Are the Puffies? is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.