🎯 Shooting Gallery

How to play

Shooting Gallery is a 45 second target round. Three shelves cross the canvas and targets slide along them from the left or the right at random sizes and speeds. You shoot by clicking on a target before it leaves the far side, and every click counts as a shot whether or not it connects.

• Click on a target — fires a shot. The hit box is a square about the width of the target, so aim at the middle of the emoji.
• Start button — begins the round and resets score, shot count and clock. It reads Restart during play.

Scoring

A target's value is fixed when it spawns: twice the difference between 50 and its size, plus ten times its travel speed, with a floor of 10 points. Smaller and faster targets pay more. Speed carries its direction sign, so left-to-right targets gain value while right-to-left ones lose it and mostly land on the 10 point minimum. At the end the game reports your score and an efficiency figure — score divided by shots, shown as points per shot.

Tips

• Favour targets entering from the left edge. Direction is built into the formula, so they are worth several times a right-to-left target of the same size.
• Small, quick targets pay best. A large slow one is an easy click but usually close to the floor.
• Do not click empty canvas to test your aim — misses raise the shot counter and drag down the points-per-shot figure.
• Spawn rate climbs with your score, so keep your pointer at mid height where you can reach two rows quickly.

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