How to play
- It is dusk on the lily pond, and newt raiders on wasps have come to strip the pads. You are the frog knight on the blue dragonfly, with a reed lance and a leaf shield. Flap your dragonfly above the raiders and come down lance first.
- Steer with the left and right arrows or A and D, and flap with Space, the up arrow, or W. Each press is one flap, and holding the key flaps at a steady rate. You keep your momentum in the air, the sides wrap around, and the sky has a ceiling you bounce off. You can land on the lily pads and logs and run along them. On a phone, use the Left and Right buttons and the big Flap button under the picture, and hold them together.
- When two riders meet, whichever lance is higher wins. If yours is higher by more than a few pixels, the raider is unseated for 500 points (orange), 750 (red), or 1,500 (ink black). If theirs is higher, you lose a life. If you are about level, you both bounce apart.
- An unseated raider falls as a seed pod. Fly into it to snatch it for 250 points, then 500, 750, and on up for every pod in the same wave. A pod left alone for about eight seconds sprouts a new raider one rank tougher, so snatch them quickly. A pod that falls in the water floats away.
- Keep clear of the water. If you fly low or touch the surface, the old pike lunges up, grabs you, and holds on for two seconds. Mash the flap button to break free, or lose a life. Stay too long in one wave and a kingfisher dives along your line. Meet its beak head-on with your lance for 1,000 points; any other contact costs a life.
- You start with three lives and earn another at every 20,000 points. A wave is clear when every raider and pod is gone. From wave 3, one pad sinks on every third wave, and every fifth wave is a pod wave, with a bonus for snatching every pod.
- Press P or Esc to pause, M to mute, and Enter to start. The Daily button plays a run on today's seed, and the Seed button plays the run for a code you type, so friends can fly the same pond.
Your best score is kept on this device.