How to play

1. On the start screen choose Story (12 maps) or Daily (3 maps). In Story you can pick any map you have already unlocked as your starting map.
2. Drag across the garden or hold the large Left and Right buttons to move Popo. On a keyboard use the arrow keys or A/D; on a gamepad use the left stick.
3. Slide the umbrella under a blue drop to bounce it. Catch it on the edge facing a dark lantern and the drop flies there and lights it. On maps 1 to 3 a dotted line shows where a catch right now would send it.
4. A lantern is complete once it has been lit as many times as the dots under it: once on maps 1 to 4, twice on 5 to 8 and three times on 9 to 12. Watch the Lanterns counter at the top.
5. Fill all three lanterns to earn the remaining seconds × 10 and move on to the next map. Finish before all 6 hearts are gone or the 30 seconds run out.
6. Pause with P, Esc or the gamepad Start button. After the final map, the result screen shows your score, bounces and perfect catches.

Strategy tips

• A dead-centre catch scores 160 and any other catch 100. Each consecutive catch adds 30 more, up to +150, so avoid storm hits and misses that break the chain.
• A drop sent into a lantern that already shows ✓ is worth only 100. Change your angle toward a dark lantern whose dots are still empty.
• From map 3, golden ★ drops add 200 just for catching them and light a lantern twice. Aim them at a lantern with two or more empty dots.
• From map 4, wind pushes drops sideways and they bounce back off the walls. Check the '← wind' or 'wind →' tag beside the lantern counter and wait on the side the wind is blowing toward.
• From map 7 storms can fall in pairs, and from map 9 the umbrella gets narrower. Blue drops only cost a heart on every second miss, so late on, dodge storms first instead of chasing every drop.