HOW TO PLAY
Three players. One triangle. You guard the wall at the bottom of your screen while two rivals defend the other two edges. Keep the ball out of your net — and knock it into theirs.
The Basics
5
lives each. Let the ball slip past your wall and you lose one.
1st to2
sets wins the match. Last player alive takes each set.
+1
bonus life for a hattrick — 3 goals in a row (once per set).
Controls
Desktop
- A D or ← → arrow keys — or move the mouse below your field — to slide your paddle
- Space to smash near a corner (or soft-return mid-wall, if enabled)
- Double-click by your paddle to arm the goalie glove
- Q pause · R restart · S sound · M music
Mobile
- Drag left/right anywhere on the field to slide your paddle
- Tap the SMASH button or a glowing corner zone
- Double-tap by your paddle to arm the goalie glove
- On-screen buttons: ✕ quit · 🔈 sound · ♫ music · ↺ restart
Score & Glory
- ⚽ Golden Boot The match-long goal leaderboard. Score the most and you wear the boot — though the pests can steal it too.
- 🎩 Hattrick Three goals in a row earns a bonus life — your reward for a hot streak.
- 🧤 Clutch Save Lunge across your wall and stab the ball on your paddle's leading edge for a called-out clutch save.
- 🔥 Rally Long rallies (5, 10, 15, 20 hits) get shouted out — and with Rally Accel on, the ball just keeps getting faster.
Two Ways to Play
Local Practice
You versus two AI opponents on one device. Pick the difficulty (Easy → Hard), dial in the pests and house rules, and play offline anytime.
Play Online
Three humans, one live match. Share your room code or invite link; empty seats fill with AI. The host sets the rules and everyone syncs up.
House Rules
Tune every match in Game Setup:
- Corners — Flat (clean bounce) · Zig-Zag (jagged, unpredictable) · Bumper (pinball speed kick) · Portal (teleports the ball across the field)
- Soft return — smash away from a corner to float a slow, curving shot instead of a rocket
- Rally accel — the ball speeds up on every hit, so rallies get hairy fast
- Goalie glove — earn charge with good play, then catch a ball and fling it back at 1.5× speed
Meet the Pests
Uninvited troublemakers who crash the field. Toggle them per match — from a lone Gopherito to all-out Chaos.
Gopherito
A mischievous alien who beamed into the arena uninvited, purely to stir up the match.
Fires a laser at the ball that scrambles its trajectory — or splinters it into three slow green balls, one aimed at each player.
Kuma
A grumpy bear dragged out of hibernation by all the racket.
Claws a gap down the middle of every paddle, splitting each in two for a few seconds. Paddles grow 30% bigger to make up for it.
Wilhelmito
A William-Tell marksman gopher who never misses — dangling from the rafters, eyeing the "apple."
Fires a plunger crossbow bolt that deflects the ball, snags and re-launches it, or tethers a paddle to slow it.
Crunch
Not a creature — a pressure spike in the arena that bites when someone's on the ropes.
The instant any player drops to their last life, every paddle shrinks to half size until they're knocked out.
KOММУНИЗМ
A stern enforcer who believes nobody should pull ahead of the collective.
When a player leads by 2+ lives, freezes their paddle (~1.5s) then slows it to 30% (~3s) to level the field.
Puckerito
A washed-up hockey star and full-blown maniac who barged in from the rink next door and won't stop chasing the puck.
Skates after the ball for slap shots, dekes, icing freezes, breakaways and body-checks — but a fast or smashed ball wipes him out (and he slips on Arlequito's puddles).
Arlequito
A prankster clown gopher who thinks the whole match is his personal circus.
Squirts water to wet-spin the ball, make a paddle slippery, or leave spinning puddles — knock him flat with a fast shot.