How to win

• Aim by dragging. Drag anywhere on the screen to swing the view. The whole screen is the aim control, so it is wherever your thumb already is, and the draw control sits on top of it with its own separate press.
• Hold to draw. Power builds over about six-tenths of a second, the bow pulls back, and the view zooms slightly as you reach full draw.
• Release to loose. The shot resolves the instant you let go, from wherever the crosshair is. The arrow you watch flying afterwards is decoration — it cannot change the result.
• Clear all six. The round ends the moment either player’s last balloon goes. If nobody clears inside sixty seconds the round is a draw.

• A short draw is not a wasted arrow. Release below minimum power and the draw is cancelled rather than fired. You lose the time, not the shot — so let it build.
• Lead the drift. Balloons move continuously along their own paths. At range, aim where one is going, not where it is.
• Let the aim recentre. Stop dragging for a few seconds and the view eases back to neutral. If you have swung off the field, letting go is faster than dragging all the way back.
• Take the near ones first. Closer balloons are larger on screen and forgiving. Bank the easy time early and spend it on the far ones.

To win: speed beats precision. A miss costs you one draw; hesitating costs you the round.

• Drag on the ball to putt. Pull back to aim and set power — the further back, the harder. Drag anywhere else and you move the camera instead. Where the drag starts decides which one you get.
• Read the guide. The dotted line runs the real physics, not an approximation, so it curves exactly the way the ball will — including a bank off a rail. It shows roughly the first couple of metres.
• Release to strike. The ball rolls, slows at a constant rate, and breaks with the slope as it loses pace.
• Hole it. Too fast and it lips out; the cup has to actually capture the ball.

• Pace changes the line. A firm putt spends less time on the slope, so it breaks less. A soft one breaks much more. You aim differently at the same target depending on power.
• The guide already knows. It accounts for your current power, so changing power redraws the curve. Set power first, then aim along the line it gives you.
• Stay out of the sand. Bunkers kill pace hard. Going around one is usually faster than going through it, even though it is further.
• Rails are a tool. Banking off a wall is a legitimate line and the guide will show it. On a dogleg it is often the shorter route.

To win: you both get the same hole, so the round is decided by who reads the break correctly on the first attempt.

• Tap to lift. Every tap costs one acorn. You start with six and can carry ten.
• Collect to keep flying. Run out with none left to collect and the next unavoidable drop ends your run — not as a penalty, just as the physics doing what it was always going to.
• Bounce off the right things. A leaf merely catches you; a bird’s back launches you about two and a half times as hard as a tap. What you aim for matters more the faster you arrive.
• Watch the sky. It darkens at twenty seconds and again at forty. The timer changes colour on the same beat, deliberately — the two cues are the same constant.

To win: survival time is most of your score, so staying up beats detouring for one more acorn you do not need.

Open the Friends tab, tap a friend, and choose Challenge to a private match. You pick the game yourself — a private room has no shared queue to fragment, so the choice is yours. They get a notification wherever they are, and join from the banner on their Play tab. Free.

Host a room, share the six-digit code, and everyone plays the same seeded course or balloon field at once. Hosting needs Face Off Plus; joining one never does. The host starts the match when everyone has readied up.

Profile → Practice. Any of the three games, solo, with no opponent and no clock to race. Nothing is recorded — no match history, no stats, no leaderboard. It is there to get your eye in.