Leafy 🍂

How to play Leafy

Leafy is a free daily skill game set in an autumn forest. Each day everyone gets the same course, and you have six shots to launch your acorn and knock the pinecone off its branch. It takes ten seconds to learn, and the wind keeps every day different.

How the course works

Your acorn starts on a stump, a low post or a fallen log. 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. Hit the pinecone to knock it down. Every day brings its own weather: calm, breezy or a full gale. Bands of drifting leaves are gust lanes that push your shot sideways while it passes through them. Some lanes only cover part of the forest, and on gale days lanes can pulse on and off. A breeze also rises and falls during every shot; the wind vane in the corner shows it. Brown branches are solid, and the leaf litter on the forest floor ends the shot. The wind changes every day but is the same for everyone.

Scoring and the helper

Knocking the pinecone down 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 flight path, including the wind, for one shot at a time, on shots 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 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 knocked the pinecone down. 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 acorn skins at 7, 30 and 100 days.

Tips

• Watch which way the leaves drift in each lane and aim into the wind.
• A high lob spends longer in the wind than a flat shot, so it gets pushed further.
• Use the fine-tune buttons or the arrow keys for small changes in half-degree and one-percent steps.

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

What Leafy trains

• Aim and timing. Judging the angle and power to knock the target down.
• Intuitive physics. Predicting how the target topples when it's hit.
• Adapting. Each day's course needs a slightly different approach.

Did you know?

• Deciduous trees drop their leaves in autumn to save water and energy through the winter.
• In the UK, oak trees support more than 2,000 species of wildlife.