Pen the Flock

Guide a sheepdog to herd a flock into a pen, with ten difficulty steps. Strays wander, every sheep runs from the dog, and the flock starts somewhere new each day.

Controls

Touch and drag, or click and drag with a mouse

Time limit

45 seconds

Score

Clear time, lower is better

Type

Skill

How to play Pen the Flock

1. Touch or click and drag: the dog runs to wherever your finger is.
2. Sheep run away from the dog and try to stay with the flock.
3. Push them through the gap at the bottom of the pen. Once a sheep is in, it stays in.
4. Get them all in before the time runs out. On difficulty 5 there are eight sheep, two of them strays.
5. You start on difficulty 3 of 10. Clear a difficulty to unlock the next: more strays (up to ten sheep), a narrower gate and quicker sheep. Difficulties 1–4 have fewer strays, a wider gate and calmer sheep. Pick any unlocked difficulty with the arrows on the start card.

Tips

• Stay behind the flock, on the opposite side from the gate, and push.
• Move slowly. Charging in scatters the sheep in every direction.
• Bring the strays to the flock first, then drive everyone in together.
• Everyone gets the same field all day, and a new one at midnight UTC. “Practice a new layout” deals a fresh one any time, off the leaderboard.