can you ride the heat?
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Warm up while you wait:
Savvy is a free daily skill game set on the African savanna. Each day everyone gets the same course, and you have six shots to launch your marula fruit into the waterhole where the giraffe is drinking. It takes ten seconds to learn, and the afternoon heat keeps every day different.
Your fruit starts on a stump, a rock 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. Shimmering columns are thermals, rising hot air that lifts your fruit while it passes through, carrying it further. Some thermals pulse on and off. The hotter the day, the stronger they are. A small termite mound sits in front of the waterhole, an acacia stands beyond it, and the long grass ends any shot that lands in it.
Reaching the waterhole 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 lift from any thermal, 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 waterhole. 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 fruit skins at 7, 30 and 100 days.
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