can you stop it in the ring?
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Icy is a free daily skill game set out on the polar sea ice. Each day everyone gets the same course, and you have six tries to launch a snowball so that it glides to a stop inside the ring, a bit like a curling stone. It has to stop with the whole snowball inside the ring: passing through doesn't count.
Your snowball starts on a block of blue ice, an expedition marker pole or a row of snow blocks. 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 flies, 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. Sea ice is slippery, so a landed snowball keeps gliding. Some days the ice is polished and glides for ages; other days it is rough and pebbled and slows you sooner. Drifts of soft snow soak up speed. Jagged pressure ridges, a different height every day, stand in the way, and a little snow berm sits just in front of the ring. On most days there is open water beyond the ring, and there may be a seal's breathing hole on the way: slide into either and the shot is over. A cold wind blows on some days, and on ice even a resting snowball feels it; the wind vane in the corner shows it. There is always at least one shot that stops in the ring.
Stopping in the ring on try 1 earns 12 points, then 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for tries 2 to 6. Six misses earn 0. The path preview draws the start of your flight path for one shot at a time, on tries 1 to 3. Using it at all halves the day's score, and once you have, you can switch it on again for another of those tries at no extra cost. Courses are gentler early in the week and trickier towards Sunday; the stars show today's difficulty.
Your play streak counts the days in a row you've played, and your cleared streak counts the days in a row you've stopped in the ring. 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.
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