Play Whack-a-Sprout

About Whack-a-Sprout

A gentle sixty-second version of the fairground classic that even small hands can play. Green sprouts are worth a point, gold ones are worth five and vanish quickly, and the sleepy grey ones cost you if you hit them. Speed ramps up in the final twenty seconds.

How to play

• Tap green sprouts for one point, gold for five.
• Grey sleepers cost you a point — leave them alone.
• The round lasts sixty seconds.

Tips from the people who built it

• Hover over the middle of the grid; every hole is within easy reach from there.
• Gold sprouts stay up for well under a second. Go for them the instant you see one.
• In the last stretch, slow down slightly. Grey mistakes cost more than a missed green.