You are a crab under the beach. Walking into sand digs it, so
every tunnel down there is one you made. Catch everything on the beach
and you go on to the next one.
👆 Moving
Hold an arrow and the crab walks; let go and it stops.
Or swipe on the sand: the crab sets off that way and keeps going.
Digging is slower than walking. Your own tunnels are your quick
way out.
🫧 The pump
🫧 Pump, or a tap on the sand, sends the bubble hose down
the tunnel you are facing. It only goes where the tunnel is dug.
When it takes hold, keep the button down: four puffs and it pops.
You stand still while the hose is on. Walk away and it lets go.
Let go early and it goes down again. While it is pumped up it
cannot hurt you, and nothing can get past it.
🪨 Rocks
Dig the sand out from under a rock and it shakes, then falls. The
red strip shows where. It keeps falling down a shaft.
It squashes anything under it, you too. One under a rock pays
1,000, two 2,500, three 4,000.
After two rocks have fallen, an ice cream comes to where you
started.
👀 Through the sand
Something that has no tunnel to you waits a while, then comes through
the sand as a pair of eyes. Like that it is slow, it cannot hurt
you and you cannot pump it.
It forms again in a tunnel, never right beside you, and you can
pump it as it forms.
💦 Eels spit
An eel on your level, with a clear tunnel between you, stops and
opens its mouth. The tunnel in front of it flickers blue. Then it
spits. Go up or down, off its level.
They do not spit on 🌱 Sprout.
🏃 The last one runs
When one is left it runs for the top of the beach and off the end. You
get the beach either way, but not its points.
⭐ Scoring
A pop pays 200, 300, 400 or 500, more the deeper it is. An eel
popped from along its own level tunnel pays double.
An extra turn at 10,000, and then every 40,000.
🙂 Levels
🌱 Sprout: three slow ones, five turns, and no spitting. 🧭 Scout: four, and the eels spit. 🏆 Ace: five fast ones that lose patience quickly.
There are eight beaches. After the eighth they come round again, turned
left to right, with more on them.
A level sets the switches in ⚙️ Settings; change one and you are
playing your own mix.