Peaky 🏔️

How to play Peaky

Peaky is a free daily skill game set in the high Alps. Each day everyone gets the same mountain, and you have six shots to launch your ball up to the summit and touch the flag.

How the course works

Your ball starts in the valley on a boulder, a trail signpost or a log bench. 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 mountain is different every day. Grey granite slabs are springy, so shots ricochet off them. Loose scree and snowfields soak up a bounce. Behind the summit, a steep granite headwall rises above the col, so a shot that flies long can bank off it and drop back onto the flag. Rock spires stand on the ridge, a different height every day, and a small snow cornice sits just below the flag. Mountain gusts blow on most days; the wind vane in the corner shows them. There is always at least one shot that reaches the summit.

Scoring and the helper

Reaching the summit 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. Mountains 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 summit. 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

• Look for the bank shot: fly a little long, hit the headwall, and let it drop onto the flag.
• Granite bounces, scree and snow don't. Pick where you land.
• 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 Peaky trains

• Aim and power. Judging the angle to reach the summit.
• Intuitive physics. Steep slopes, snow, ice and wind change how shots travel.
• Learning from misses. Each try shows where to adjust.

Did you know?

• Mount Everest grows a few millimetres taller each year as the Indian and Eurasian plates push together.
• At the top of Everest, each breath holds only about a third of the oxygen it would at sea level.