Polish graphic artist and flash auteur Mateusz Skutnik populates artfully photographed landscapes with little bearded hideaways in Ten Gnomes. Each game begins with a panoramic black-and-white photo, but no visible gnomes. To find them, you'll need to click and scroll through a series of detailed images. You have ten minutes to locate all ten gnomes.

Skutnik intends to release one Ten Gnomes episode per month this year. So far his evocative hide-and-seek locations include a shipyard, a public park, a garden, and more. Gnome-hunting draws you deeper into each landscape. In an episode that begins with a city skyline, for example, you'll find your way to a single rooftop, then a solitary window, and then inside a room to explore a windowsill. By the time you've found each gnome you'll have developed an intimate knowledge of the larger setting. It's really quite brilliant.

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