Afterglance (Dayzle)

About Afterglance (Dayzle)

Afterglance is one of the original daily games on Dayzle, a site of puzzle games owned by TLL Studios in Valencia. Each day at your local midnight it draws a new street, and everyone sees the same one.

A card tells you how many shops the street has and how long you will see it. Press Look and the street appears in colour, with awnings, doors, potted plants, bicycles, passers-by, a dog and traffic, while a bar counts the seconds down. You can zoom in, or press Done early. When the time runs out the camera clicks and the colours, people and cars vanish, leaving a pencil sketch of the buildings.

Six questions follow, one at a time and with no time limit. Five have four answers each: which colour, which shop, how many. From Tuesday a glowing spot on the sketch asks what stood there, from Wednesday some questions ask the order of shops from left to right, from Thursday some link people and objects, and on some days you must pick the one thing that was not in the street. The last question, What changed?, brings the street back with one difference to tap; on Sundays the change is tiny.

You score one point per right answer, six at most. Your shared result shows one square per question and how long you looked, never the questions or answers. Settings offer extended observation with 50 percent more time, marked in the result, and fewer flashes, and colour answers always show the colour's name.

How to play Afterglance (Dayzle)

1. Open Afterglance on Dayzle; a card shows how many shops today's street has and how many seconds you get.
2. Press Look and study the street until the countdown ends, or press Done if you are ready early.
3. Answer the five questions with four choices each, using the pencil sketch of the buildings that is left.
4. In the last question, What changed?, tap the one thing in the street that has gone, changed colour or moved, and confirm.
5. See your score out of six and share your squares and look time.

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Tips

• Sweep the street in a fixed order every time: roofs and windows left to right, then shop fronts, pavement and road.
• Tie each colour to its owner in your head, such as red bakery or blue door, since questions ask whose colour it was.
• Count small groups and note odd details: two cars, three people at a stop, a balloon, a cat in a window.
• Later in the week, also note the order of the shops from left to right and who is holding what.

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