NEVER HAPPENED

“If nobody notices, it’s art history.”

You are Vince Lang, a failed painter—ten years of work and not a soul ever stopped to look. You wash up as a driver for the fine-art courier “Blackwood Fine Art Transport.”

The company has one rule: never leave a single scratch.

But hands slip. And this company has a tradition passed down for generations.

Paint over it. Make it never happened.

Three minutes until the inspector

The clock gives you 180 seconds. Take up the brush with shaking hands and fill in the torn canvas. For once, the brush no one ever wanted is needed—to erase.

The tools of deception are all here

Mix paint freely on the palette, steal colors from around the tear with the eyedropper, and retouch only the missing parts. The toolkit is the real thing. The skill is on you.

The inspector’s eye misses nothing

Your work is machine-scored against the original as a match rate (%). On top of the inspector’s merciless verdict, a heatmap lays bare exactly where you slipped. No excuses.

The evidence lines up, three across

After inspection, “original,” “just after the accident,” and “your restoration” sit side by side. A good fix begs to be shown off. A terrible one—you’ll want to show that off even more. Save the result as an image.

Compete with the world’s “restorers”

Battle players worldwide on the leaderboard by match rate. A Daily Challenge pits everyone against the same one-shot run with a set subject and time limit. Who covered it up best today?

The masterpieces are all real.

The 42 works are ones everyone has seen in a textbook—every one a high-resolution scan of the genuine, public-domain original. What you set your brush to is no replica, no copy—it’s art history itself.