Game

A carnival ring toss, the second booth at the Broom & Blade fair, and Pip runs it. You grab a ring off the peg and flick it at a table of twenty bottles: a soft flick lands up front, a hard one reaches the back row, and the slant of the flick carries it sideways. The rows are worth two to five, one bottle is golden and worth ten, and each bottle takes one ring. A full row pays five times its value, a column pays 15 and the four corners 20. Three rows in, the string lights go rainbow and a heartbeat starts under the last bottles. Ring all twenty and the round ends in a BLACKOUT: the lights cut out, a spotlight snaps on, the word stamps in letter by letter, and the fair goes wild while Pip screams. Every sound is made by the game as you play, and the whole game is one file. Here every round is free.