The hold is the whole game. Everything else — the answers, the ranking, the prize — hangs off this one gesture. Here is exactly how it behaves.
Press and hold
Put your finger on the photo and keep it there. The blur clears progressively while you hold. Lift your finger and it pauses exactly where it is — it does not snap back, and it does not keep going.
Put your finger back down and it picks up from that same point. What counts is the total time you have held, not one uninterrupted press. Short taps, long presses, twenty separate touches: it all adds to the same total.
So there is no penalty for hesitating, checking the answers, or looking again. There is only a cost in time.
The 10% gate
The six answers stay locked until you have uncovered at least 10% of the photo. Tap one before that and you get a "reveal more!" nudge instead of a submitted guess.
This exists for one reason: without it, someone could open a Reveal and slam an answer blind. One in six is decent odds when there is no penalty, and a lucky blind guess would beat a friend who actually looked. The gate makes that impossible.
10% is not much — a second or two of holding. It is a floor, not a challenge.
The clock is always visible
Every Reveal has a deadline, and it sits right over the photo, ticking down live. Under an hour it turns urgent. Once the Reveal closes it just reads Ended.
It is there because holding costs time in two different ways at once: the more you uncover, the worse your rank, and the closer you get to the deadline. Both are running while your finger is down.
Answering is final
When you pick an answer, that is it. Locked in. Your choice and the exact amount you had uncovered at that moment are both recorded permanently.
No changing your mind, no second attempt, no reopening it to try again. One shot per Reveal, per person.
What happens the moment you answer
The blur vanishes and the whole photo is finally visible, with the answer shown over it.
- Right? You get a celebration.
- Wrong? It tells you plainly, and shows you what the answer actually was.
Either way you can then ask to see the five decoys you were choosing between — which is often the funniest part — and share the moment straight away.
Reduce motion
If your device has reduce-motion turned on, the reveal still works exactly the same. Buddzy dials back the animation, not the mechanic.
Pro tips
- Hold in short bursts and glance at the answers between them. The options often make sense of a detail you have already uncovered.
- Do not aim for a clear photo. A fully uncovered photo means you rank behind everyone who did not need one.
- Recognise, do not read. You are looking for a room, a jacket, a horizon — something you have seen before. Detail is rarely what gives it away.