About Scratcheer

Scratcheer is a guessing game built around one idea: anyone can name a famous face when the whole photo is in front of them, but almost nobody can do it from a corner of a jaw and half an eyebrow. The game turns that gap into a score.

How a round works

Every round starts with a photo hidden under a layer of foil. You drag across it to scratch the foil away, and the four possible names sit below the picture from the very first second. The moment you think you know who it is, you pick a name and press Lock In.

Your score is what is left of 100 after the percentage you scratched is taken off. Guess at 8% and you walk away with 92. Guess at 70% and you get 30. Guess wrong and you get nothing, however little you scratched. The whole point is to commit early.

Why the photo stays blurry

Scratching one small patch over an eye would be an easy way to cheat, so the picture does not simply appear where you scrape. How sharp any part of the photo looks depends on how much of the whole card you have cleared. At 10% even a perfectly aimed scratch over someone's face is a soft smudge. The detail arrives gradually, and it costs you points to get it.

The crop also shifts a little every time a photo loads — slightly rotated, slightly zoomed, slightly off-centre — so there is no reliable spot to aim for.

The daily challenge

One picture is picked for each calendar day, and it is the same picture for everyone in the world that day. You get one attempt. Play it on consecutive days and a streak builds up next to the category buttons.

Streaks and best scores live in your own browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, which also means they do not follow you to another device, and clearing your browser data clears them.

Challenging a friend

After any round you can copy a link that carries your result. Whoever opens it gets the same photo and a note saying the number to beat. The share text deliberately leaves the name out — handing over the answer would make the challenge pointless.

Who makes this

Scratcheer is a small independent project, not a company with a newsroom behind it. If something is broken, wrong, or should not be here, write to info@scratcheer.com and a person will read it.