Forgeous

Forgeous, by Trainwreck Labs, calls itself finger painting fine art forgeries. Every day it puts up Today's Painting, a public-domain work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, taken from the data the Met gives to Wikidata, next to a blank frame captioned Fingers on screen, today. All the paintings are taller than wide, so the game fits a phone held upright.

You tap the frame and get a blank canvas with a timer of about three minutes, five colours picked from the painting, a brush size slider, undo and a button to swap colours. You can bring up the model to look at it again, and a progress tile shows your match as you paint. When time runs out, your copy is scored by how close each pixel's colour is to the original, so getting the big areas of colour right counts most. A perfect score is possible on a few paintings only.

Scores go on a daily list of top scores, and your gallery keeps every forgery you have made, with today's score, your average, your best and your streak. Logging in backs up your gallery and lets you see other people's work, but the daily plays without an account. A practice mode gives you a random painting from the archive whenever you want more, and you can share your score and forgery.

The game is built for phones and says it is best enjoyed on mobile, though it runs in a desktop browser too. It suits art lovers, people who doodle on their phones, and anyone who likes a daily game where the result is a picture rather than a word.