Zoomies!
Poker. But greyhounds.
Your couch is full of retired racers, and every one of them bends the rules. Play poker hands to Sprint down the track, stack Zoom until the numbers get silly, and chase the Lure through six Meets of cozy chaos.
How it plays
- Pick up to 5 cards and Sprint. Distance x Zoom = how far your pack runs.
- Sniff to swap out cards you don't want. Reach the target before your Sprints run out.
- Pairs are Littermates. Straights are Laps. Five of a kind? Big Zoomies.
Adopt weird dogs
67 hounds, each with a trick. Noodle adds Zoom. The Roacher multiplies tiny hands. Nappers doze on the couch, store power, then wake up with the zoomies and cash it all in. Stash sits on a pile of kibble. Lonely Lou just wants one friend.
Every Final has a Rival
The Squirrel distracts your cards. The Mailman sends a hound barking at the window. The Sly Fox raids the treat jar. A Thunderstorm sends everyone under the blanket. And at the end of the season: the Mechanical Lure.
Build the couch, break the math
Feed Treats to level up your favourite hands, drag hounds into the right order, and watch a humble pair turn into a 100,000 m sprint. Beat the final Rival and keep running in endless mode.
Plays in your browser. Mouse only. A run takes about 45 minutes.
Click a hound to give it a pet. They like that.
Comments
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Love the game!! As a Balatro Enjoyer and grey owner I was hooked from the start.
Wanted to point out that the stray is able to copy basket case, which doesn't help in the run and also didn't work in the shop, so should either give +2 treats in shop or maybe not be able to target basket case at all
Thank you so much for your feedback! I’ve made a note and I’ll look into it, thank you for playing :)
Thanks for catching this. The Stray could copy Basket Case, but his copy did nothing, in the race or in the shop.
Basket Case wasn't the only one. 10 hounds had effects he couldn't pass on: Basket Case, Busby, Big Paws, Bookends, Doug, Fleece Navidad, Marty Gale, Muddy Paws, Nosy Nell and Zoomie Twins.
I went with your second idea. The Stray now never picks those hounds, so every copy he makes does something. I didn't add +2 Treats, because he picks a new hound at the start of each race. In the shop he would still hold the last race's pick, which is hard to follow.
His copies got better, so his own bonus drops from +4 to +3 Zoom to keep him fair.
Both changes are live in the new web build now. Thanks again, keep the reports coming.
great balance changes! glad it helped catch some other stray [badum tsschhh] issues with the copying too. such a fun little game to come back to and try a run whenever the mood strikes. hope more people pick it up and have a go, it's very charming
Hey, Great work! But there appears to be a bug in this one, the game keeps asking me to turn my phone sideways, no matter what position I hold it in :(
Hi! what kind of device do you have?
ZenPhone 8 running android 13. All other games are working.
I’ve made it change to the game settings. Would you be able to try again, please?
It loads now! Thanks :)