ArtGuess.io

What's New

ArtGuess.io is updated regularly with new paintings, features and articles. Here is everything that has changed, newest first. Have an idea or a painting you'd like to see? Get in touch.

Artist guides and a new homepage

  • New Artist Guides section with in-depth pages on Francisco Goya, Mihály Munkácsy, Eliseu Visconti, Katsushika Hokusai, Wang Hui, Frida Kahlo, Yun Shouping and Pablo Picasso, each listing every one of their paintings in the game and where it was made.
  • The homepage now introduces the game, links to the latest articles and answers frequently asked questions.
  • Launched this What’s New page to keep track of updates.

About page and article improvements

  • Expanded About page explaining who builds ArtGuess.io and how the painting collection is sourced, located and reviewed.
  • Every article now shows its author and publication date.
  • Pages now load with their full content straight away, making the site faster and easier for search engines to read.

New paintings and a guide to Edo-period Japan

  • Added a new batch of paintings to the database.
  • New article: Hokusai and Hiroshige: Two Artists Who Mapped Edo-Period Japan.
  • The How to Play guide now explains multiplayer step by step.

Multiplayer improvements

  • Fixed an issue with how paintings are selected for each round.
  • Multiplayer refinements and bug fixes.
  • Added more paintings and tidied up the site footer and blog formatting.

Multiplayer is here

  • Play real-time, synchronized matches with friends: create a room, share the 6-letter code and race to pin each painting.
  • Customizable rooms with difficulty, round count, round timer and a cutoff timer after the first guess.
  • Added sound effects and background music, with volume and mute controls.

Collection expansion

  • A large batch of new paintings added across several continents and centuries.
  • New tooling to research and add paintings to the database more quickly.
  • New article: The Raphael Rooms: Reconciling Faith, Philosophy, and Papal Power in the Vatican.

Latin American painting

  • New article: The Pulse of Latin America: From Mexican Murals to Peruvian Liberators.

Daily Game expanded

  • The Daily Game now features six paintings instead of five, for a maximum score of 30,000 points.

More articles

  • New articles: Top 5 Most Difficult Paintings in ArtGuess.io and The Master of Two Worlds: The Luminous Legacy of Eliseu Visconti.

How to Play guide and new articles

  • Published a full How to Play guide covering filters, the Daily Game, guessing and scoring.
  • New articles on Frida Kahlo, Mihály Munkácsy and African Modernism.
  • Interface improvements throughout the site.

The ArtGuess.io blog launches

  • First article: Chasing the Ghost of Goya: A Journey Through 18th and 19th-Century Spain.

Gameplay improvements

  • Improved map interactions and added extra information about each painting after you guess.

Daily Game and global leaderboard

  • New Daily Game: the same set of paintings for every player worldwide, with a global leaderboard.
  • Added new paintings from around the world.
  • Added Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Contact pages.