You are a crab under the beach. Walking into sand digs it — every
tunnel down there is one you made. Clear the beach of diggers and you move
on to the next one.
👆 Playing
Tap the arrows, or swipe anywhere on the sand. 🫧 Pump fires a bubble hose down the tunnel you are facing. You can
also just tap the sand to pump.
You can press a direction before you reach the corner — the crab
remembers and turns as soon as it can.
🫧 How the pump works
The hose only travels down a tunnel, so line yourself up first.
When it connects, keep pressing: four puffs and the digger pops. You cannot move while you are attached. That is the whole risk —
the other diggers are still coming.
Stop pressing and it deflates, and it is dangerous again. A
half-pumped digger is not a safe one.
🪨 Rocks are the big score
Dig out the square under a rock and it starts to wobble, with a red
ring round it. Then it falls.
It squashes anything underneath — including you. But get two or
three diggers under one and it pays far more than popping them:
1000, 2500, 4000, 6000.
A landed rock breaks up, so it can never seal a tunnel.
👻 They come through the sand
A digger that cannot reach you through the tunnels eventually goes
see-through and drifts straight at you through solid sand. It is
slower that way, and it cannot dig — so it has to surface in a tunnel
before it can chase you properly.
This is why hiding in a pocket does not work.
🐟 The eels spit
An eel lines up along your row and a faint blue streak appears — that is
your warning. Get out of the row, or get above or below it.
They do not spit at all on 🌱 Sprout.
🏃 The last one runs
When only one digger is left it heads for the surface and gets away after
a few seconds. You get the beach either way — but not the points.
🙂 Levels
🌱 Sprout: three slow diggers, five turns, and no spitting. 🧭 Scout: four diggers, and the eels spit. 🏆 Ace: five fast diggers who lose patience quickly.
A level sets the switches in ⚙️ Settings; change any and you are
playing your own mix.