🏹 Archery

How to play

A round gives you ten arrows at a target on the right of the range. You loose an arrow by clicking where you want it to go, but two things stand between the click and the landing point: a crosswind that pushes the arrow sideways, and a slow drift that moves the target itself. Every arrow that lands stays on the face so you can see your grouping.

• Click on the range — shoots one arrow at that point. Each click spends an arrow whether it scores or not.
• Start button — begins a round with ten arrows and becomes Restart, which resets the score.
• Wind readout — the line at the top of the range shows the current wind direction and strength.

Scoring

The target has five rings, worth 10 points on the outer red, then 20, 30 and 40 as you move in, with 50 for the gold centre. An arrow that lands outside the outer ring scores nothing. There is no penalty beyond the arrow it costs, so the round is always exactly ten shots and the maximum is 500. When the last arrow is spent the round closes and Best is updated if you beat your previous total.

Tips

• Aim into the wind. An arrow drifts in the direction the arrow in the readout points, so click to the left when it reads right, and by more when the number is larger.
• The wind shifts constantly, so read it again before every shot rather than trusting the correction that worked last time.
• The target sways in a slow loop. Wait until it is near the middle of that sway rather than chasing it.
• The gold centre is worth five times the outer ring, so an aggressive shot at the middle beats a safe one at the edge over ten arrows.

Frequently asked questions