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Physics · Arcade

The Tar Pits

A route of nine handmade tar pits in three chapters. Each has its own rock, its own weather and one cistern mouth you have to physically reach: get a supported blob to the mouth and the rest of your batch walks down the pipe and is banked for good. Four living materials do four different jobs (pitch braces, ember lifts, tallow grips bare stone, bitumen spans a gorge), and every blob you build with is a blob you did not rescue.

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How to play

  1. Drag from a living blob into open air to place pitch, and tap a blob to pull it back out.
  2. Reach the cistern mouth with a supported blob so the batch can drain down the pipe.
  3. Spend as little of the batch on the tower as you can, then bank what is still standing.

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