can you make the oasis?
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Sandy is a free daily skill game set in the hot desert. Each day everyone gets the same course, and you have six shots to launch your date into the oasis pool. The dunes, the cacti and the soft sand make it trickier than it looks.
Your date starts on a sandstone block, a wooden post or a half-buried 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. A dune rises between you and the water, and its soft sand kills a roll quickly, so a shot that lands short usually stays short. Saguaro cacti stand in the way; their height changes every day and their spines stop a shot dead. A small sandstone rock sits in front of the pool, and a date palm stands beyond it, so overshoots can drop back off its fronds. A dry wind blows on some days, and the sand is firmer on some days than others.
Reaching the oasis 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. 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 reached the oasis. 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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