🤫 Tiptoe
A guardian dozes at the back of the room. Fetch the key and get back to the door unseen — holding to move, releasing to stop. And stopping is not instant.
- Up to 4 players
- Party game
- In your browser, free
- With friends or against bots
Hold to move, release to brake
Each player has their own lane, with the exit door behind them and a key at the far end. Holding the button (or space, or a finger anywhere on the screen) makes you walk — and the longer you hold, the faster you get.
Releasing makes you brake to a stop and hide in a barrel. Except that the faster you are, the longer you take to stop. Slow is safe; running gets you there sooner, if the guardian does not wake up along the way.
The snore bubble is the clock
While the guardian sleeps, a bubble comes out of his nose and slowly deflates. Big means you can run. When it turns small and amber, you are in the danger zone: it can pop at any moment.
And it deflates faster with noise. Every player who runs makes the guardian sleep worse for everyone — running is other people's problem too.
He always warns you
The bubble pops, the guardian stirs for about a second, and only then opens his eyes. Walking at up to half speed, a normal reaction stops in time even on the shortest warning; running flat out, it depends on your reflexes.
Sometimes the stirring is a false alarm and he goes back to sleep. That costs time to whoever stopped — never the match. And the first instant with his eyes open catches nobody: that is the forgiveness for players with a slower connection.
Being caught is not being eliminated
If he wakes and sees you moving, he throws you back to the last safe point: the start, or the key if you already have it. The flight takes over a second and that is the punishment — nobody becomes a spectator.
After landing you have to release and hold again to start walking. Whoever was already pressing does not accidentally sprint straight into the next awakening.
Out, back, and the finish
Picking up the key stops you there — turning around costs you the acceleration again. With the key, your lane's door opens, and the first player through it wins. The first escape starts a ten-second final countdown for the rest.
Escapees are ranked in the order they escaped; everyone else by how far they got on the way out and back, with ties going to whoever was caught fewer times. The match has a sixty-second ceiling.
Against the bot
The easy bot runs flat out and reacts slowly — it is usually caught two to four times a match. The normal one slows down when the bubble enters the danger zone, but gets distracted sometimes. The hard one runs right at the edge of its own reflexes, and that is precisely why it is hard.
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