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Trap the Critters with Paint

Trap the Critters with Paint

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·October 10, 2025
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dddddaviddddd

Overlapping zigzags quickly trap them. Since ‘trapped’ appears to be determined by the rate of bounces, you just need to divide the area as much as possible.

aiiane

Resizing the window smaller makes the game a lot simpler.

nikolay

Reminds me of Xonix [0]...

[0]: https://dos.zone/xonix-1984/

evan_

JezzBall was also pretty similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall

Jezzball was a TI calculator classic.

ninju

How do you win a level?

I trapped the critter with painted lines but when the time expired it said I lost :-(

ninju

Ah..you have to trap them REAL tightly and then they explode :-)

stevekemp

Helps to hold the button down and shake over the circle - if you don't mouseup it doesn't count as a new stroke.

dddddaviddddd

Reminds me of the Brandon Sanderson novel, The Rithmatist, where creatures are also trapped in drawn shapes.

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4b11b4

I like it. I wish they'd bounce off each other too! - to incentivize getting em into the same zone.

hooverd

It's easier to keep bisecting the area vs trying to draw a circle.

LoganDark

I just predict their path and draw a very tight circle and they explode in just one or two draws :)

jmclnx

Very Cool and quite fun to play with