Snip the Web

The game

Ten spider webs hang in a macro-photographed garden, each one strung with dew that has to reach the leaf cups below. Drag a swipe across a thread and it parts with a flash of spray, the two ends snapping back while the drop tumbles, splashes and sometimes merges with another drop mid-air. Silk is sticky, so a live thread will bounce a falling drop off its surface and send it wide of the cup — plan the order of your snips, not just the angle. Cut as few threads as the web allows: every level is graded against a par, and the fewer snips you spend, the more stars and bonus points you bank.

How to play

• Click or tap to begin, and again to move on to the next web or to retry a wilted one.
• Press and drag the mouse (or a finger) across a silk thread to slice it — the swipe leaves a glowing trail and each cut is counted as a snip.
• Goal: get every dew drop into a leaf cup. The HUD shows your level, score, snip count and how much dew is still left to catch.
• Drops that touch while falling merge into one bigger drop for +15; a drop landing in a cup scores points by its size and bursts into spray.
• Score bonus comes from restraint: finish at or under the web's par snips for three stars, par +2 for two, anything more for one.
• If a drop falls off the bottom of the garden before the cups are full, the web wilts and you retry the same layout.
• Press P or Escape to pause and resume at any time.