★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Dolphins have names for each other.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★The moon has moonquakes.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★An octopus has nine brains.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.

★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Dolphins have names for each other.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★The moon has moonquakes.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★An octopus has nine brains.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.

Whack a mole

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Whack a mole

Bop the moles before they duck back down. Golden moles give 5 points.

Tap start or press space.

How to play Whack a mole

Moles pop out of holes around the board. Tap or click each mole to bonk it before it ducks back down. Each hit adds a point. The longer the round runs, the faster the moles pop and the shorter they stay up. Miss too many in a row and the round ends. Try to last as long as possible and beat your best score.

Tips

Watch the whole board, not just one hole
Stay loose, tense fingers slow you down
Hit moles as soon as they pop, do not wait for a clear shot
Use one finger or one hand only, switching slows your taps

About Whack a mole

Whack a mole started as an arcade cabinet in Japan in 1975 and reached the United States by 1976 under the name Mogura Taiji or Mole Buster. Real foam moles powered by air cylinders punched up out of holes and the player walloped them with a padded mallet. Carnival arcades still have the cabinet today. Our pixel version is the same idea, friendlier on the wrists, just as silly.

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