How to Play Spot The Difference — Rules & Strategy Guide

Spot The Difference is a free daily visual puzzle where you compare two illustrated scenes and find five changed details. The rules are simple, but the timer and wrong-click penalty make careful scanning more valuable than random tapping.

The core rules

1. Each daily puzzle has two similar scenes.
2. Five details are different between Picture A and Picture B.
3. You have 90 seconds to find all five differences.
4. Each wrong click subtracts five seconds.
5. The answer screen reveals the hidden difference zones after the run.

What counts as a difference

A difference can be a missing object, an extra object, a size change, a color change, a shape change, or a count change. The game avoids ultra-tiny pixel hunts; the challenge is noticing meaningful scene details under time pressure.

Recommended scan order

• Sky and top edge: sun, moon, clouds, birds, signs, and roof details.
• Center objects: windows, doors, trees, furniture, and scene props.
• Ground line: flowers, shadows, paths, wheels, and small repeated objects.

Strategy

• Do one calm scan before the first click. The first wrong tap is the easiest to avoid.
• Count repeated details. Many misses come from assuming three flowers are still three flowers.
• Look for round-versus-square changes in windows, signs, and buttons.
• On mobile, zoom the browser before tapping a suspicious small detail.

Play today's puzzle: /daily/spot-the-difference.