Burrow Bonk

Whack-a-mole in one minute or less, with ten difficulty steps: tap every mole before it ducks back down, never tap a bomb, and don’t let too many escape. The holes they pop from change every day.

Controls

Tap the screen, click, or press Space

Time limit

35 seconds

Score

Clear time, lower is better

Type

Arcade

How to play Burrow Bonk

1. Moles pop out of twelve holes. Tap or click one while it’s up to whack it.
2. You start on difficulty 3 of 10. Clear a difficulty to unlock the next: more moles, shorter pop-ups, more bombs and fewer escapes allowed. Pick any unlocked difficulty with the arrows on the start card.
3. On difficulty 5, 24 moles stay up for about a second at first and only about half a second by the end; a third that gets away ends the run.
4. About a third of the way in, moles start coming two at a time. Tapping a bomb ends the run at once.

Tips

• Bombs stay up as long as moles do, so check what came up before you swing.
• Keep your pointer near the middle of the grid so every hole is a short reach.
• Everyone gets the same pop-ups all day, and a new order at midnight UTC. “Practice a new layout” deals a fresh one any time, off the leaderboard.
• The leaderboard ranks the highest difficulty cleared first, then the fastest clear on it.