Six critters live around you. They poke their heads out of their lairs and you must whack them with the rubber hammer before they hide again.

Lair layout

• Q — front-left lair
• E — straight ahead
• T — front-right lair
• Z — back-left lair
• C — directly behind
• B — back-right lair

You stand on D in the centre. D is empty — never whacked. Each lair has its own creature with its own voice, so you can tell them apart by sound.

Scoring

• Hit early for more points. A fresh popup is worth up to 150; a dying popup is worth as little as 30.
• If a critter hides without being hit, you lose one miss. Five misses ends the run.
• The longer you survive, the faster the critters pop and the more pop at once. The music layers up too.

Status keys

• F1 — read score
• F2 — read misses left
• F3 — read current level
• Esc — back to the menu