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Sami paid $70 for five minutes behind a locked gate in Cancún, and a French stranger nearly got left outside.
His hunt for the one MUSA Invader that isn't underwater turns into a crash course from a top-100 Flash Invaders player: the tools serious hunters use, whether knowing the exact location ruins the fun, and the three trophy mosaics that separate amateurs from legends, including one on the International Space Station.
Then Zahra picks up last week's cliffhanger: can just looking at art make you more creative? Four ways it changes your brain, a study where an artsy short film beat funny home videos, and why a painting in a museum does something a copy at home can't.
THE SPACE 02 CHALLENGE [Giveaway]
Flash Space 02 before November 29. Screenshot the dated confirmation from your Flash Invaders gallery, post it to your Instagram story and mention @artvirgins. Every entry goes into a draw for a DIY Invader mosaic kit. Step-by-step video on our Instagram.
THE INVADER HUNTER'S TOOLKIT
Score
- Flash Invaders: the official app
Check what's still up
- Invader Spotter: the community database of each mosaic's status. https://invader-spotter.art
Map and plan your route
- Invamap (web, free): interactive map, per-city stats, off-game works you can see but not flash, ISS tracker, Paris metro guide, and InvaderGuessr to train your eye. https://invamap.si/index
- Findvaders (iOS + Android, free): filter by status, city and flash state, new-mosaic alerts, friend comparison. https://findvaders.com/
- Invader Tracker (Android): near-real-time status, optimised flash-tour routes, city stats vs the community. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.invader.tracker
- Mapvaders (iOS): route time estimates, badges, hunting streaks. EN/FR/ES. https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/mapvaders-invaders-tracker/id6448292221
- InvaderHunter (iPhone): routes by time or zone, progress charts by city. https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757766700
- Invaders Finder (iOS): city-by-city counts. https://invaders-finder.com/en/
Keep the hunt (locations shown to within about 10 m)
- pnote.eu Space Invader map (web, free): https://pnote.eu/projects/invaders/
- MySpaceInvaderMap by Code Rhapsodie (web): https://www.code-rhapsodie.fr/en/products/my-space-invader-map
Catch the ISS
- Spot the Station (app)
Stay current
- Instagram: Invader Was Here (official account), #InvaderWasHere, #InvaderLondon
- Discord: the Space Invaders community
ALSO MENTIONED
Space 01 and the Art for Space documentary · KLN27 at the European Astronaut Training Center, Cologne · the reactivators and the clean team ·
Art-film creativity study by Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler, UC Santa Barbara: https://news.ucsb.edu/2026/022478/watching-art-films-can-make-you-more-creative-thinker
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