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Warding TowersArcade, Casual

Warding Towers

Comets are falling on the city at night: tap the sky to throw ward-bolts and burn them out before they reach the houses.

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About Warding Towers

Defend six city districts from falling comets. Aim ward-bolts into the sky to create expanding blasts and catch several threats at once. Protect the towers that keep your defence firing.

How to play

Goal
Shield the six districts of the city: tap the sky to throw ward-bolts that burst and burn falling comets out.
How it ends
The night ends when the last district burns. Every wave you survive refills the towers.
Record
The ten best scores on the endless night, each re-played by the site before it is ranked.
  1. Tap or click the sky just ahead of a falling comet: a bolt flies there and bursts into a ward.
  2. Comets inside a ward burn out, and each bursts into a smaller ward that can take its neighbours.
  3. Spend bolts carefully: ten per tower per wave, and unspent ones score when the wave is held.
Worked example for Warding Towers
Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

InputAction
Tap · ClickThrow a bolt from the nearest tower
ArrowsMove the aim (Shift for fine)
A · S · DThrow from the left, centre or right tower
SpaceThrow from the nearest tower
EscapePause
R · ↻Start a fresh night (asks again once you have scored)

Good to know

Ranked results are checked by replaying your moves. Your bests stay in this browser.

Watch how to play

The rules, then The endless night played start to finish. Played by an automated player at a person's pace; the narration is a synthetic voice. English captions and chapters on YouTube.

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