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A half-painted canvas on an easel in a greenhouse, a lighthouse sunset and tulips on one side and blank outlines on the other, colour blooming from the brush tip

Number Bloom

Casual and relaxing

By Nadia · 76 plays

Paint by number, one tap at a time. 48 original pictures, from tulips and lighthouses to coral reefs and mandalas, come alive when you finish them and bloom in your own garden.

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About the game

I wanted to make pictures that move when you finish them. Every one of the 48 is drawn as shapes by hand, and they bloom at the end. Number Bloom is a relaxing colour by number game. Every picture starts pale, with a number in each area. Pick a paint from the palette and tap the areas with its number to fill them in. Bit by bit a finished illustration appears, and when the last area is painted the picture comes alive: the tulips sway, the fish swim, the windmill turns and the fireworks burst. There are 48 original pictures in eight themes: Flower beds, Seaside, Countryside, Under the sea, Woodland friends, Sweet treats, Night lights, and Mandalas and glass. They range from 53 to 248 areas, so there is a quick one for a coffee break and a big one for a quiet evening. New themes open as you finish pictures. Zoom in with a pinch, the mouse wheel or the + button and drag to move around; small numbers show up as you zoom. The areas for the paint you hold are striped so they are easy to find, finished paints get a tick, and a hint drops a pin on the nearest area you missed. Taps are forgiving, so you never have to hit tiny areas exactly. Every finished picture is planted in your gallery garden as a flower with the painting at its heart. Tap a bloom to watch it come alive again. Your progress on every picture is saved, so you can leave one half-painted and come back to it later.

How to play

Pick a paint at the bottom (or on the right on wide screens), then tap or click the areas with the same number to fill them. Areas for the chosen paint have stripes. Pinch, scroll or use the + and - buttons to zoom, and drag to move; the square button shows the whole picture. Hint puts a pin on the nearest unpainted area. Finish every area to bring the picture to life and plant it in your garden. Keyboard: number keys or [ and ] choose paints, N jumps to the next area, Enter paints it, H gives a hint, + and - zoom, arrows move, Escape pauses.

Devices
desktop, mobile, tablet
Orientation
any

Content notes

No violence, text chat, ads or purchases. All pictures are original and friendly: flowers, animals, food, landscapes and patterns. Gentle synthesised sounds that can be turned off, and motion that can be reduced in settings.

Screenshots

Painting a lighthouse on a cliff: the top of the picture is coloured in, the rest is pale with numbers, the striped areas show where the chosen paint goes and a pink pin from a hint marks the nearest one, with the numbered palette on the rightZoomed in on a cottage garden picture with 248 areas: flower beds, a picket fence and the cottage wall, some areas painted and others pale with their numbers, striped areas for paint 5 and finished paints ticked in the paletteA finished sea turtle picture coming alive in the results card, swimming among sea grass and bubbles, with three earned petals, the number of areas, time and hints, and buttons for the garden and the next pictureThe gallery garden: flower beds for each theme where every finished picture blooms as a flower with the painting in its centre, buds for pictures still to paint, and a count of pictures grownThe pictures screen opened at the Sweet treats theme: picture cards for a cupcake, a birthday cake, ice creams, tea for two with its progress bar, a fruit bowl and donuts, and below them the Night lights theme still lockedA phone in portrait painting a night owl on a branch under the moon: the owl, moon and night sky painted, the branch and hills still pale with numbers and stripes for the chosen paint, and two rows of numbered paints at the bottom with a Hint button

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