Muddy 🐸

How to play Muddy

Muddy is a free daily skill game set in a marsh. Each day everyone gets the same course, and you have six shots to launch your ball onto the lily pad where the frog is sitting.

How the course works

Your ball starts on an old stump, a fence post or a section of boardwalk. 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. The mud flats are sticky, so a ball stops dead where it lands and can't roll into the pond; only the odd grassy tussock gives a little bounce. Out on the pond, open water ends the shot, but a floating log will skip your ball onward, and the smaller lily pads catch it short. Stands of cattails, a different height every day, soak up any shot that hits them, a half-sunk stump sits just short of the frog's pad, and a thick bed of reeds and willow at the far side swallows anything that flies long. A soft breeze blows on most days; the wind vane in the corner shows it. There is always at least one shot that reaches the pad.

Scoring and the helper

Landing on the pad 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 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. Marshes 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 pad. 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

• No rolling in: the mud is sticky, so this is all about the flight.
• A floating log is your friend: skip off it and let the bounce carry you onto the pad.
• 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 Muddy trains

• Aim and control. Landing softly on a lily pad without overshooting.
• Intuitive physics. Predicting the arc of your shot and where it settles.
• Fine adjustment. Small changes in power make the difference.

Did you know?

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