Skip

🎮 About This Game

Skip is a one-button pond race and the precision leg of the Triple Crown. Two frogs cross a braided causeway of lily pads: hold your button to charge a hop, release to fly. The gauge accelerates the longer you hold, so a long hop travels further per second of charging — and lands looser, because your release error is magnified and momentum shrinks your footprint. That single trade is the whole input. The course adds the racing: most ranks of the causeway offer a near pad and a far pad, so charge length is also your route; pads sink under a frog's weight and stay sunken for a while after it leaves, so a close rival's trail is water you can read; and if you land on a pad your rival is standing on, it is you who wobbles. First to the far bank takes the round, first to three rounds takes the match.

🎯 How to Play

Hold your key to aim (P1 holds A, P2 holds the up arrow; solo can also hold Space) and watch the marker slide along the water — it shows exactly where the current charge would land, and it speeds up and shrinks as the gauge accelerates. Release when it sits on the pad you want. A landing inside the pad's surface sticks; a miss is a splash, which costs two seconds and puts you back on your last pad. Standing still is not safe either: a pad sinks under your weight in roughly two and a half seconds, faster with two frogs on it, and a fully sunken pad dunks whoever is on it. Sunken pads recover slowly, so the pads your rival has used stay small for a while — route around them, or accept the tighter landing. Landing on an occupied pad is allowed, but the arriving frog takes a wobble penalty, so raids cost the raider. When the far bank is within one big hop, charge long and go.

💡 Tips & Strategy

• ▸Medium hops are the racing line. The two-rank hop is fast and forgiving; the three-rank gamble exists for when you are behind, not for when you are cruising.
• ▸Gamble when losing, never when leading. The sim's clearest number: sizing your risk by the race state beats any fixed habit — and a splash while ahead is how leads change hands.
• ▸Watch the marker's size, not just its position. It shrinks as you charge — that shrinking ellipse IS your landing tolerance, drawn honestly.
• ▸Read the rival's trail. The pads they just used are visibly lower and smaller; the sibling pad of each pair is usually the clean one.
• ▸Do not stand around composing yourself. Your own pad is sinking the whole time you charge — a long gamble held too long ends with the pad going under mid-charge.
• ▸Raiding an occupied pad is a pressure play, not a free hit: you wobble, they do not. Do it to force a tired rival into a bad hop, not as a habit.
• ▸The bank dash is the one hop where overshooting is impossible — anything past the waterline counts. When it is in range, spend the whole gauge.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions