Pixel

Pixel starts you with an Attack on Titan character rendered as an unreadable block of colour and sharpens the image every time you guess wrong. The question is how early you are willing to commit: name them from the blur and score well, or wait for a clean picture and score much less.

It turns out that silhouette, hair colour and the shape of a uniform carry more information than anyone expects. Regular players start recognising characters two or three stages earlier than they could when they began, which is the most satisfying kind of progress a guessing game can offer.

A heavily pixelated character image is shown. Type the character you think it is and submit your guess.

Each wrong guess sharpens the image by one stage, so the picture resolves gradually toward a clear portrait. The earlier you identify the character, the higher your score for the day.

A new image is chosen daily, and the same one is served to every player, so scores are directly comparable.

Read the colour blocks before you read the face. Hair colour, the green of a Survey Corps cloak and the brown of the harness survive pixelation far longer than facial features do, and together they usually cut the roster to a handful.

Use the outline of the head and shoulders. Long hair, a hood, an undercut and a uniform collar all keep their shape at low resolution.

Do not spend a guess on a character who looks like several others. If two candidates share hair and uniform, guess the one whose silhouette is distinctive so that a wrong answer still tells you something.