POWER BALL PAUL

HOW TO PLAY

Bounce first, then score. A direct throw passes straight through targets and birds. The ball has to touch the ground or a side wall first; it turns gold when it's live. The ceiling doesn't count.

Watch the windows. When a window lights up, a neighbour is heading for one of the upper balconies with a water bomb, and they'll throw it right at you. Keep moving! Anything falling can cost you a life, including the things you knock off, so watch where they land.

Catch burgers. A falling burger is good news: catch it to win back a life (three at most). The burger sits on a different balcony each level, and now and then a neighbour throws one instead of a water bomb.

Knock everything off all eight balconies to reach the next level. The neighbours come out faster from level 4, and from level 6 two of them can be out at once.

Daily Alley. Choose DAILY ALLEY under the screen and everyone playing today gets the same alley: the same burger balconies, birds and neighbours. One serious go a day (honour system). When it's over, SHARE RESULT gives you a line to paste to friends. Nothing is sent or saved; your result only goes where you paste it.

Once a throw can't reach anything else, it finishes its bounce and the ball is back in Paul's hand.

On a phone, the best way to play: hold ◀ ▶ with your thumbs to move, and tap the alley where you want the ball to go. It throws straight away, facing the right way. The further from Paul you tap, the harder he throws.

Mouse: click to start, then drag on the alley to aim and let go to throw. Keyboard: Space start and throw, ← → or A D move (Paul keeps facing the way you aimed), ↑ ↓ angle, W S power, Q / E face left / right, P or Esc pause.

POINTS

• Bottle +60 · burger +90 · plant pot +100 · radio +150 · BBQ +180
• Birds fly high: big slow +200 · medium +300 · small fast +450
• Side-wall bounce: double points
• Combo: the 2nd hit in one throw scores ×2, the 3rd ×3, and so on. It stacks with the side-wall double.
• Catching a burger with full lives: +50
• Three lives. Best score lasts until you reload the page.

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