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Gift Slingshot
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About the game
Gift Slingshot is a throwing game on a frozen river, seen from above. An elf stands on the bank with a giant slingshot, and boats of every size drift past on the water, each waiting for presents. Between you and them, icebergs float by and block some throws.
You move up and down the shore to line up with a boat, then hold the throw key to stretch the slingshot: the longer you hold, the farther the present flies. A present that lands in a boat scores 50 points and adds two seconds to a 60-second clock. There are ten levels; the boats and icebergs get faster as you go.
Throws that fall short or hit an iceberg just splash, so the game is about reading distance and speed and not about fast fingers.
Playing it here
Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. It works with touch: drag to move, press and release to throw. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Up / Down arrow | Move along the shore |
| Hold Space or Right arrow | Stretch the slingshot (longer = farther) |
| Release | Throw the present |
A few things worth knowing
Lead the boat. Boats are moving: throw where the boat will be, not where it is.
Every boat adds time. Two seconds per hit means a streak of accurate throws can keep the clock from ever running out.
Credits and licence
Gift Slingshot is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.
FAQ
How far does the present go? It depends on how long you hold. There is a limit; past it, holding longer does not help.
How many levels are there? Ten, with faster boats and icebergs each time.
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