Star Whack

Star Whack takes a familiar idea and tunes it until it clicks. Here you get a 60-second round with 13% bomb rate, wrapped in a clean, distraction-free board that works just as well on a phone as on a laptop.

How Star Whack plays

It is a pure score-attack loop. When the round ends you get your score, your best, and the itch to immediately beat it. Rounds are short enough that 'just one more' is a genuinely dangerous sentence.

Why Star Whack sticks

It suits anyone with a queue to wait in or a kettle to watch: students between classes, commuters, parents stealing ten quiet minutes. There is no meta-progression to lose and nothing to catch up on - a week away costs you nothing but a little sharpness.

How to play

1. Press play - you have 60 seconds on the clock.
2. Tap each target the moment it pops out of a hole.
3. Gold targets score extra; bombs cost a life.
4. Survive the round with your streak and lives intact.

Where it sits

Tap fast for 60 seconds - hit the targets, skip the bombs.

A note on the sticker

Star Whack is filed under Pecut Shelf, and the decision comes down to one tag set: reflex, score, timed. Those three words are the whole reason it is not sitting somewhere else.

Mechanically it stays close to its tag set — reflex, score, timed — and does not add a second system on top, which is why it survives repeated play better than it looks like it will.

The practical advice: play it once with the sound off and once with it on. On this board the difference changes how you time your moves.