About this picture
Ada sits at a dark wooden desk inside a quiet room at night, illuminated by the warm amber glow of a brass table lamp. She holds a folded telegram in both hands, gazing down at the typed lines with a stunned expression. On the desk around her rest a leather-cased 35mm camera, a glass carafe of water, an ornamental brass box, and a postcard. Outside the open balcony door, city lights sparkle across the Lisbon waterfront under the dark evening sky.
The story so far
This photo is part of The Mender of Lantern Street, a story told one torn photograph at a time. Mira assembled Tomás Vale's mapmaker studio in Bairro Alto, where penciled charts revealed he had followed Ada's steps through Kyoto and Paris. The final print showed Ada holding her lost lens cap, kept by Tomás for nine years.
How to play
Drag a piece onto another square to swap them, or tap a piece and then tap where it should go. Hold Preview for a faded glimpse of the photo: enough to see where the sky and the street go, not the details. Pieces that belong together join up and move as one, and turn green once they are in the right place. You have 6:00 for these 49 pieces, and the clock keeps running if you leave the page. Each photo has three stars: one for restoring it, one for finishing with2:24 still on the clock without taking extra time, and one for doing it in 65 moves or fewer. Each episode starts with 2 hints and earns more along the way; unused hints carry over to later photos. Playing needs a free account, which keeps your stars and stamps on every device. Restoring photos earns stamps (more for more stars, and extra for whole episodes), which buy more time or more hints. Once the photo is restored, turn it over and look for the clue hidden in it. Photos open one after another and episodes in order; each new chapter opens once you have enough stars from the chapters before it.