Reefy 🐠

How to play Reefy

Reefy is a free daily skill game set underwater on a coral reef. Each day everyone gets the same reef, and you have six tries to collect every shell in a single shot: one launch has to touch them all.

How the course works

Your pearl starts on a coral boulder, an old mooring post or a sunken plank. 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. Underwater, things move differently: the water slows your shot down quickly and it sinks gently, so shots float and drift instead of flying. Bands of current sweep across the reef, shown by streaming particles; some surge on and off. Shells sit on sea fans and kelp at different heights, and each shot starts with every shell back in place, so you have to get them all in one go. Coral heads make the pearl glance off, tall pillar corals stand in the way at a different height every day, and on some days a spiny sea urchin sits on the sand: touch it and the shot is over. The water surface above bounces a shot back down. There is always at least one shot that collects every shell.

Scoring and the helper

Collecting every shell 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 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. Reefs 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 collected every shell. 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 the currents: a lane flowing your way carries the pearl along the whole row of shells.
• Watch the particles in a current: when they slow down, that lane is between surges.
• Your last shot's path stays on screen, and each miss tells you how many shells you got.

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

What Reefy trains

• Aim and planning. Choosing a path that collects every shell.
• Intuitive physics. Predicting how currents and water slow your shot.
• Adapting. Each reef layout needs a fresh plan.

Did you know?

• The Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure built by living things on Earth.
• Corals are animals, not plants; many get much of their food from tiny algae living inside them.