How to play
- A yeti has carried your sled dog up the mountain, one camp at a time. You are in a red parka with a good pair of boots, and you are going up after her. Climb the ledges and ladders, and reach the dog before the bonus runs out.
- Walk with the arrow keys or A and D, and climb a ladder with Up or W (Down or S to go back down). You can only climb on a ladder, and you can not jump while you are on one. Space jumps in a fixed arc, about as high as a snowdrift and as long as a few steps. A fall of more than a short hop costs a life, so mind the ends of the ledges. On a phone, use the pad and the Jump button under the picture.
- The yeti rolls a snowball down the mountain every couple of seconds, and each one grows as it rolls. Jump a small one for 100 points. A big one is too tall to clear, so get off its ledge. Snowballs sometimes drop down a ladder, and more often when you are below it. A snowball that reaches the bottom breaks into a snow sprite that drifts toward you, and touching one costs a life.
- Grab an ice axe and, for 10 seconds, you swing it on your own and smash every snowball you walk into: 300, 500, or 800 points, the bigger the better. You can not climb or jump while you hold it. Mittens, thermoses, and scarves lying on the ledges are worth 300 to 800 points each.
- There are four stages in a loop. The Switchbacks are sloped ledges and ladders. On the Ice Falls the floes carry you along like a conveyor belt, there are cracks to jump, and icicles drop on a warning shimmer. The Cable Cars are lifts that ride up and down, so wait for one at the bottom and step on. Snowballs roll past a moving car, so step out as soon as it stops at the top. At Summit Camp, walk over all six tent stakes to pull them. The tent collapses, the yeti tumbles, and your dog runs to you.
- The bonus starts at 5,000 on every stage and drops 100 every two seconds. Reach the dog and the rest is yours. If it hits zero, you lose a life. You start with 3 lives and earn one more at 10,000 points. Each lap through the four stages is faster than the last.
- Press P or Esc to pause and M to mute, and Enter starts. The Daily button starts a run on today’s seed, and Seed plays a run by its code, so the same seed always rolls the same snowballs.
Your best score is kept on this device.