PickNPop

Getting started with PickNPop

You’ve gotten a package in the mail! You set it down and open it; it’s full of white disks and a few colored disks. We call the white disks packing peanuts and we call the colored disks jewels. Your goals are to pop the peanuts and to move the jewels out of the yellow packing box and into the pink target box. When a jewel is fully inside the target box it changes its appearance. If you don’t drag it fully inside, it will fly back out.

In this game, the cursor tool can take the form of a Pin or a Hand. You can change cursor tools with the toolbar buttons, the mouse wheel, or with the accelerator keys 3 and 4.

You can click and drag the critters with the Hand (also called the Drag cursor). If you click on ...

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