Glowy 🦑

How to play Glowy

Glowy is a free daily skill game set in the deep ocean, far below where sunlight reaches. Each day everyone gets the same course, and you have six shots to send your glowing orb to the beacon.

How the course works

Your orb starts on a basalt boulder, an old research pole or a sunken mast. Its height and position change every day, but it is never higher than a stump, and it can be on the left or the right. Drag back anywhere on the course and let go to launch: the further you pull, the harder it goes, like a slingshot. You can aim in any direction, from flat left to flat right. On a keyboard, use the left and right arrow keys to swing the arrow and up and down to set the power, then press Space or Enter. It is dark down here. You can always see the beacon, the glow around your start and anything else that glows, but the rest of the seabed only shows up when your orb's light passes near it. Every shot you take lights up the water it passed through for the rest of the day, so each try shows you more of the course. The beacon sits in a nook under a basalt shelf, with a small rock lip in front of it, so steep lobs usually bounce off the shelf. Clumps of giant tube worms, a different height every day, soak up any shot that hits them, and on some days a hydrothermal vent sends up a hot plume that lifts anything drifting into it. Shots slow down quickly in the water and sink gently. There is always at least one shot that reaches the beacon.

Scoring and the helper

Reaching the beacon on shot 1 earns 12 points, then 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for shots 2 to 6. Six misses earn 0. The path preview draws the start of your path for one shot at a time, on shots 1 to 3, even through the dark. Using it at all halves the day's score, and once you have, you can switch it on again for another of those shots at no extra cost. Courses are gentler early in the week and trickier towards Sunday; the stars show today's difficulty.

Streaks and badges

Your play streak counts the days in a row you've played, and your cleared streak counts the days in a row you've reached the beacon. Play seven days in a row to earn a cycle bonus of 7 points, or 14 if you cleared all seven. Your best play streak unlocks new skins at 7, 30 and 100 days.

Tips

• Use your first shot to explore: its light stays on, so you'll see more of the course next time.
• Come in low and flat under the shelf rather than dropping in from above.
• Your last shot's path stays on screen, and each miss tells you how close you came.

More puzzles: all Streakly games · how scoring, streaks and badges work

What Glowy trains

• Aim and judgement. Reaching the beacon in the dark of the deep.
• Intuitive physics. Predicting movement through deep water.
• Learning from misses. Each try lights up what to change.

Did you know?

• Sunlight barely reaches below about 200 metres, so most of the ocean is permanently dark.
• Anglerfish use a glowing lure on their heads to attract prey.