FindMaster Guide: 36 Puzzle Types, Hearts, Clock Math and Items Explained

FindMaster

HaniLab Master Series · Android

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FINDMASTER COMPLETE GUIDE

There is not one pre-drawn picture.
The room is built fresh every time

A cup on the kitchen table has turned red. A donut that wasn’t there yesterday sits on the plate, and in the mirror only the teapot has slid a little to the side. FindMaster never uses a stored picture. The game builds a room, changes a few things, and draws it twice.

This FindMaster guide covers everything in the game, in order: the screen layout and controls, hearts and the clock, 36 puzzle types and 18 pick rules, the order in which new types unlock, how a tap is judged, H Coins and score, the five items, and the six rooms with their 41 objects. Every number and on-screen phrase was checked against the game source. If you are new, jump straight to the six tips for first-time players at the bottom.

It is a spot-the-difference game, with one twist: the pictures are not drawn in advance. Inside Unity, the game lays out 3D objects by rule to make a room, changes a few of them, and renders the scene twice into an upper and a lower picture. Because the game knows every object, answers are judged by object ID and screen area, not by comparing pixels. No outside AI or server is called, so building a puzzle happens entirely on your device.

That means the same board never shows up twice, and puzzles are generated even in airplane mode (ads, the leaderboard and push notifications use the network separately). The game code is 0036.

Real game screen: A on top, B below, and the prompt “Find 3 differences” above the pictures.

The screen is vertical. Score and clock sit at the top, the picture in the middle, and the item row at the bottom. Everything left over after the top 340 and bottom 300 (on a 1080×1920 reference canvas) belongs to the picture.

• H Coins and score: your H Coins at the top left, the SCORE at the top right. The big number in the middle is the time left, in seconds.
• Level bar: the bar beside Lv.1 shows how close you are to the next level.
• Prompt strip: this round’s goal in one line, for example Find 3 differences.
• Picture area: with two pictures, A on top and B below sit with one gold line (34px) between them. With one picture, it uses the whole strip.
• Three hearts and progress dots: the hearts on the left are your lives, the dots on the right count what you have found. A dot fills green when you find an answer. A streak shows up as text like Streak ×3 (from 2 upward).
• Item row: Magnifier, Time Stop, Heart, Skip and Level Boost, five buttons.

One-picture puzzles (Object Hunt, Reflection, Memory, Odd One Out, Flashlight Hunt, Pick It, Count It, Remember the Order) show one large picture. Object Hunt and Flashlight Hunt add a silhouette tray below for the objects you must find, and each slot fills with color when you find it. Counting puzzles get a strip of answer buttons underneath.

Input is almost entirely a single tap. Pressing inside a picture converts the touch point to a position within the picture (0 to 1), which is what gets judged. There is no long press and no zoom.

Flashlight Hunt: only the circle of light is visible. “Find: Teddy bear” on top, a silhouette tray below.

Taps do nothing while you are memorizing. In Memory Match and Remember the Order, both the clock and your input are paused while the picture is shown.

There are two ways to lose: all three hearts are gone, or the clock reaches 0. When time runs out, Time’s up! appears in the middle.

• One wrong tap = one heart, and that round’s combo goes back to 0. The screen shakes and the phone vibrates.
• A second tap near the same spot within 0.45 seconds is not counted as wrong. It exists so that a finger that lands twice doesn’t cost two hearts.
• Tapping an answer you already found again is not a mistake.
• In ordered puzzles (Object Hunt, Flashlight Hunt, Remember the Order, Big to Small / Small to Big), only the answer whose turn it is counts. Tapping another answer spot first is a miss.
• You get 1 heart back each time you level up (max 3). Items can refill hearts too.
• The clock is set fresh for every board, and leftover time never carries over. It stops during Time Stop, during the memorizing phase, and during the 3-2-1 countdown at the start of a board.

When a board starts, the screen transition (tiles cover the screen and the level number appears) and the 3-2-1 play first, then the goal text appears. The clock starts running from that point.

The game has 19 puzzle modes. Pick It splits into 18 rules, so the puzzles you can actually be asked come to 36 types. The number of answers varies a little with difficulty.

The rule in Pick It changes every round. Below is the list with the on-screen sentences as the game words them (the { } slots are filled with a color, object, type or place).

Pick It: “Tap everything EXCEPT Red objects”. You have to tap every object that is not red.

Ambiguous rules are never served. The biggest or smallest object must differ in area by at least 1.35 times, and neighbors in a Big to Small / Small to Big run must differ by at least 1.22 times. Position rules need a screen difference of 0.07 or more, and if too few objects are visible the rule misfires and the game moves on to another one. Big to Small / Small to Big must be tapped in the set order.

You don’t get all 36 types at the start. New types open as you level up, and by level 4 all 36 are open.

• A type does not repeat until you have gone through the whole lap. Every unlocked type shows up once before any comes around again.
• The game also avoids serving the same family back to back: spot-the-difference, hunt, pick, memory, counting, odd-one-out and mirror.
• The first puzzle of a level that unlocks a new type is that new type (from level 2). The first puzzle of level 1 is always Find the Differences.
• Levels 1 and 2 are pinned to low difficulty, and up to level 5 newly unlocked types start out easy.

How much the level bar fills differs by level. Levels 1 and 2 take about 3 boards, the requirement grows slowly as you climb, and it stops growing at 14 from level 28. A clean clear fills the bar a lot, one mistake fills it less, and using more than 60% of the time cuts it a little further. With the Level Boost item on, that round fills it double.

Memory Match: “Memorize this picture!” with a countdown. The clock is stopped while you memorize; the time runs from 6.5 to 3.5 seconds depending on difficulty and grows with the number of answers.

The clock is computed from the puzzle type, the level and the number of answers. Once it is calculated, it doesn’t change until the board ends.

For example, a level 1 Find the Differences with 3 answers gives 7 + (3-1)×3.5 + 3 + 10 = 27 seconds, and a level 1 Object Hunt with 2 answers gives 8 + 4 + 3 + 10 = 25 seconds. Each level up trims one second, but only from the start value down to the minimum, and the 10-second base slack stays. Flashlight Hunt is the most generous because you have to drag a light around in the dark.

The area that counts as a hit is more generous than the object you see.

• The answer area comes from the object’s screen rectangle and is inflated to at least 128px (measured on a 1000px-wide picture). A further 26px of margin goes around the object.
• The centers of two answers are kept at least 84px apart, so a single tap can never land on two overlapping answers.
• An answer candidate has to sit fully inside the picture’s 2% edge margin, and an object that other objects cover too much is never made an answer.
• In a puzzle where order doesn’t matter, a tap that falls between two answers goes to the one whose center is closer.

So even for a small object, you don’t have to hit its exact middle. A slight miss still counts if it lands in the answer area. Tapping all over the screen at random is the quick way to lose hearts, though.

Remember the Order: after the numbers are shown, the prompt becomes “Tap them in the same order” and you tap the same objects in that order. The clock is stopped while you memorize.

Each time you find an answer, a coin pops out and flies to the H Coin pill. Clearing a puzzle adds bonuses line by line.

Clear 3 answers fast with no mistakes and you get 9 for answers + 8 for clearing + 6 perfect + 4 speed = 27 H Coins.

• The combo is how many answers in a row you have hit in one puzzle. It resets to 0 on a mistake or when a new puzzle starts. From 3 up, COMBO x3 text appears and the answer sound climbs in pitch.
• The streak is how many puzzles in a row you have cleared. It only resets when you fail. The Streak ×n on screen is this value.
• The score is 100 + 30 × (combo – 1, up to 8) per answer, and a counting answer is worth 160. When you clear a puzzle, the time left and a level bonus are added.

H Coins pay for items, and item prices and the ad refill amount adjust on their own to match the coins you earned in recent rounds. They are only refreshed when a level starts, so prices don’t change in the middle of a round.

These are the five buttons in the bottom row. When you press one, it uses stock if you have it and pays H Coins on the spot if you don’t. No item wins the round for you; they keep you in it.

• Prices are the base values above multiplied by the coin economy factor and rounded to a multiple of 5, so at first you see the numbers above, and later they drift a little (minimum 10).
• Stock can be used only within 24 hours of buying it or receiving it as a gift. The item page also says Items are usable for 24 hours after purchase. Buying more restarts the 24 hours for existing stock too. The stock cap is 99.
• On every level-up, one of the five items is given at random as +1 stock.
• If you can’t afford one, Not enough coins appears; if it’s already on, Already working! appears.

Rooms are built from six layouts. Each room uses a palette of 8 colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink and white).

• Kitchen table: a table with a tablecloth band and a tiled wall.
• Kitchen shelf: striped wallpaper, a cabinet below and two wall shelves.
• Kitchen counter: plaster wall, a counter with an upper cabinet, and a shelf on the right.
• Study desk: damask wallpaper, a desk, a chest of drawers and a wall shelf.
• Living room mirror: a room with a mirror set into the wall. It appears only in Reflection Difference puzzles.
• Living room corner: a 3D room with a window, rug, sofa, picture frame and floor lamp. Reserved for one-picture puzzles.

There are 41 kinds of object in all.

Ten of them have two or more states, which is why they are used in State Difference: cup, mug, teapot, pot, jar, toaster, clock, lamp, candle and book.

• Daily reward: a popup appears on your first visit of the day. On a fresh install, the first launch doesn’t give one and only records the date. The reward is not one of the five items but 2 hints. If you receive it through a push notification, it is 3 hints.
• Hints: the lightbulb button on the shared bottom bar. You can use 1 per round by default, plus whatever you’ve gained from the daily reward, push or ads. Using one puts a yellow ring on the next answer for 2.6 seconds, and in a counting puzzle it removes one wrong choice. It is separate from the five items above.
• Continue: when your hearts or time hit 0, the game doesn’t end straight away; a result screen comes first. There you can pick watch an ad to continue or continue with H Coins, and you resume the same puzzle exactly as it was with hearts refilled to 3 and 25 seconds added. Spots you already found stay found. The coin cost is 120 + 12×(level - 1), capped at 900.
• Refill H Coins with an ad: the Watch an ad · +n H button, with a base of 200 that shifts with the economy factor.

1. Tap just once. With two pictures, tapping the difference on A or on B once is enough. You never need to tap both.
2. Read the prompt strip first. The 36 types come round in turn, so the goal is different every round. The clock only starts after the 3-2-1.
3. Don’t tap in a panic. You only have 3 hearts, and only a second tap near the same spot within 0.45 seconds is forgiven.
4. The clock is stopped while you memorize. In Memory Match and Remember the Order, use that time only to look. Taps do nothing.
5. Ordered puzzles go in order. In Object Hunt, Flashlight Hunt, Remember the Order and Big to Small / Small to Big, tapping an answer that isn’t up next is a miss.
6. Use items within 24 hours. Don’t use Heart when your hearts are full, just keep it. Save Time Stop for time-hungry types such as Flashlight Hunt.

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