Paint Roller

What Paint Roller is

Paint Roller is a daily picture-building puzzle on a 6-by-6 grid. Each day, a blank cream canvas sits beside a target picture made from a palette of 1 to 4 colors. Your job is to recreate that picture by loading a paint color and rolling entire rows or columns across the grid. Every roll covers a whole line in the chosen color, and later rolls overwrite earlier ones, so the sequence of your moves is what shapes the final image. You cannot paint individual cells one at a time — each action affects a full row or column.

How to play

The aim is to match the target in as few rolls as possible. Each puzzle has a par score, which is the true minimum number of rolls found by a solver. Rolling exactly par earns three stars, finishing within two extra rolls earns two stars, and anything more earns one star. A new picture appears daily at your local midnight, and puzzle numbers count days since 1 January 2026.

Tips

1. Work backwards from the finished image. Since later rolls cover earlier ones, tracing the picture in reverse helps you identify which rows or columns were painted last.
2. Use the undo option to test different roll orders. Because the order of rolls determines the final result, trying variations can help you find the path to par.