About Hidden Familiars
In "Rub a tin cup" a BAT sleeps across the words. Every line of these forty verses hides one familiar the same way: a beast, bird, fish or dragon spelled across the gaps between words. Find it, drag across its letters and it walks free into your bestiary. Five chapters run from the Hedgerow's three-letter beasts to the Old Bestiary's basilisks and chimeras, with longer names and more decoys inside single words as you go.
How to play
- Goal
- Find the familiar hidden across the words of every line in a verse.
- How it ends
- The verse is finished when all eight familiars are free; it cannot be lost, and a wrong pick only costs a pick.
- Record
- The fastest time and the fewest picks for every verse.
- Open a verse. Its open line is laid out as letter tiles; the familiar is spelled by letters that cross at least one gap between words.
- Drag across the familiar's letters, or tap its first letter and then its last. On a keyboard, move with the arrows and press Space at both ends.
- A name inside a single word is a decoy and does not count. A wrong pick costs one pick and says why; a pick under three letters is free.
- Free all eight familiars to finish the verse. Stuck? The lantern lights the first letter, but the verse is then practice.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Drag / tap first, then last letter | Pick a span of letters |
| Arrow Left / Right, Space | Move along the line, mark both ends |
| Arrow Up / Down or 1–8 | Choose a line |
| H | Lantern: light the first letter (practice) |
| = | Restart the verse (practice) |
| Escape | Cancel a mark, then back to the verses |
Good to know
Every line was checked against a list of about a thousand creature names so that it hides exactly one across its words. Your verses, records, bestiary and settings persist in this browser.
