Question 1

What is Seshat: The Painted Duat?

Accepted Answer

Seshat: The Painted Duat is a free browser coloring mosaic built on Egyptian myth. Set's serpent swallowed the painted charts of the night, so every gate of the Duat is a blank wall of symbols. You play Seshat's last apprentice: pick a colour from the palette, find every tile that shows that colour's symbol, and paint them all. Thirty chapters across four acts take you from the Hall of Scribes to the Barque of Ra, and an endless mode called The Endless Papyrus keeps generating fresh panels forever.

Question 2

How do I play a coloring mosaic?

Accepted Answer

Tap a colour chip at the bottom of the screen — each colour is bound to a symbol such as an ankh, a scarab or the Eye of Horus. Then click or drag across the wall: any tile showing the chosen symbol takes the paint, and wrong tiles shake and refuse it. The percentage bar rises only for tiles that match, so the wall becomes a picture as you work. On a keyboard, keys 1 through 8 choose colours and H fires Seshat's Sight.

Question 3

What are Anubis' seals?

Accepted Answer

From chapter six onward, some tiles carry the chain-mark of Anubis. A sealed tile will not take paint until all four of its orthogonal neighbours are painted — then the seal breaks with a stone clack and the tile joins the wall. Seals are placed apart on purpose so a paint route can always weave around them; paint the frames and the open fields first and the seals fall on their own.

Question 4

What is Apophis' ink?

Accepted Answer

From chapter seventeen the great serpent has crawled through the gates, and some tiles are covered in black ink that hides their symbol. A first touch with any colour wipes the shadow away; a second touch paints the tile. Cleansing an inked tile costs a moment but no progress, so sweep them clean as you pass rather than hunting them at the end.

Question 5

How do coins and stars work?

Accepted Answer

Coins drop every fourteen tiles you paint and drift up from the wall — five coins each, collected automatically or with a tap. When a wall is finished the temple buys it: one hundred and twenty coins plus half a coin per tile plus sixty for every star earned. Stars are pure time against the par printed on the result panel: three stars at or under par, two stars within one point six times par, one star for finishing at all. The temple's coin total lives in your browser.

Question 6

What does Seshat's Sight do?

Accepted Answer

Seshat's Sight is the hint power: three uses per chapter, one press of the button or the H key. For a couple of seconds every tile that matches your currently selected colour glows with a white border, which is exactly what you need when a wall is down to its last scattered tiles. It is free, it does not paint for you, and it does not pause the clock — sight helps, but the brush still has to move.

Question 7

Is there an endless mode, and does it work on a phone?

Accepted Answer

The Endless Papyrus unlocks when you clear chapter eight. Each panel is a fresh seeded pattern with more colours and a bigger canvas as you go, no seals, no ink and no clock — you relax, paint, sell the panel to the temple and another appears. The game is completely free, with no download, no install and no ads inside it. It runs in any modern browser on desktop, tablet and phone, with a mouse, a finger or a keyboard, and all progress is stored locally in your own browser.

SESHATTHE PAINTED DUAT

Choose a gate

SESHATTHE PAINTED DUAT

Choose a gate

Gate 1 — First Stroke

Gate 1 — First Stroke

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