The whole game is three swipes and four taps. What takes practice is knowing which hazard you can jump and which one you have to steer around — so this page tells you exactly, with the same numbers the game runs on.
Hedges, stone cairns and bush walls all sit around knee height and all answer to the same swipe up. Your jump peaks at 0.98 m against a 0.48 m hit band, so a clean jump clears them with room to spare — brushing the leaves with your toes is scored as a near miss, not a death.
When the forest closes a lane it puts a full-size tree in it, 2.05 m of green wall — over twice your jump. There is no over-the-top. Pick your lane while the wall is still far away; a swipe into a blocked lane simply bounces, and running head-on into the face is always fatal.
Clipping a hurdle is normally a stumble, not a death: it crushes flat, you lose feathers and stagger, and the monster roars in your ear. But take a second hurdle while it is still on your tail, or clip one with another close behind, and the run ends there.
A held token does nothing. The slots sit in the bottom corners and are the only part of the HUD that takes a tap — and because timers stack, using one early never wastes a later one.
Three swipes, four taps. There is no slide and no down-swipe — the game registers exactly three swipe directions.
Move one lane across a three-lane track. It works mid-jump too — and steering out of a jump also brings you down fast, so a sideways swipe in the air is a dive as well as a dodge.
Your only answer to a hurdle. The arc peaks just under a metre and the whole hop lasts about seven-tenths of a second — enough to clear anything knee-high, never enough for a wall.
Flips between the chase camera and the view over your shoulder. It is the only way to see the monster, and your hen glances back while it is on. A hard cut on purpose — a sweeping orbit would drag the lens through the trees.
Holds her wings open into a glide pose while she keeps running. Purely cosmetic, entirely worth it — and jumping overrides it with a panic flap anyway.
Hit it anywhere on screen and it roars: the jaw snaps open, trembles through the hold, and closes exactly as the sound tails out. Free, and there is no reason not to.
The two bottom corners hold your tokens, and they are the only part of the HUD that takes a tap. Tap again while a boost is running to stack another full duration onto the clock.
What it is
The teaching obstacle: a domed row of two-tone shrubs crowned with flowers, about 0.7 m of visual wall. The first one arrives at 100 m and the gaps tighten as the run goes on.
How to survive it
Jump. Your 0.98 m apex clears the 0.48 m hit band comfortably, and toe-brushing the leaves is deliberately scored as a near miss.
What it is
A cairn wall of boulders with rubble at the skirt, composed fresh every time. It joins the pool after 120 m and takes about a third of all spawns.
How to survive it
Jump — the hitbox is identical to the hedge's. Only the art changes; inside the caves this is the only style you will meet.
What it is
Textured bushes packed shoulder to shoulder with low plants filling the skirt, so it reads as one solid green mass. It joins the pool after 90 m.
How to survive it
Jump. Three styles, one rule — the game varies the art, never the answer.
What it is
The forest taking a lane back: a full-size tree standing in the lane with boulders at both faces and brush packed into every gap, 2.05 m tall. Past 420 m two lanes can close at once.
How to survive it
Steer, and steer early. Height is ignored here, so there is no jumping it. A swipe into a lane that is about to close simply bounces — but a head-on hit on the wall face is always fatal.
What it is
Clip a hurdle and you normally stumble rather than die — feathers fly, the world staggers, and the monster roars on your shoulder as it closes the gap.
How to survive it
Survive the next ten seconds cleanly. A second hurdle while it is still prowling ends the run, and so does clipping one with another right behind it.
What it is
The caves are not a hazard in themselves — they are a change of rules. Sunlight drops away, the fog pulls in tight, and obstacles emerge from the dark far later than they do in daylight.
How to survive it
Nothing new to learn. The same jump answers a stone barricade and the same early lane pick answers a colonnade — just expect much less warning.
The common one, roughly ten for every egg. Coins lay themselves in ground lines and in arcs over jumpable hurdles, they bank into a lifetime balance at the end of the run, and they buy both new hens and extra continues.
The rare one, seeded into the middle of a coin trail. Cracking it splits the shell along a real crack line, throws a column of light, and pays out exactly one reward: 30% of the time raw XP, otherwise one of the five power-up tokens.
A visible green medallion woven into a trail about every 250 m. It is not a consumable — grabbing it banks 2 XP immediately, or 4 while EXP Increase is running.
All five drop from eggs. Tap the slot to spend one; tap again while it is running to stack another full duration onto the clock.
Doubles every point of XP you earn — distance, kilometre bonuses, eggs and green tokens alike.
18% of eggs
Winds the whole world up to 1.6× speed. More ground per second, and far less time to read what is coming.
18% of eggs
Rockets ignite on your wings and you leave the ground entirely — invincible, above every hurdle and wall, with pickups rising to meet you.
12% of eggs
Triples how often the road lays out pickups. Same coin trails and eggs, three times as thick on the ground.
11% of eggs
You turn to a translucent ghost and keep running on the ground — hurdles and walls simply stop mattering for ten seconds.
11% of eggs
Experience comes from four places at once, and EXP Increase doubles all of them. Levels are deliberately expensive early: 50 XP to leave level 1, then double the previous requirement every level up to 25, after which the curve settles into a gentler climb that never stops.
When you go down, the card offers two ways back onto the track. Watch a rewarded ad and continue for free, or pay coins and skip it — 1,000 for the first continue, doubling for each one after. Either way you come back with a short shield, and if you died standing in a blocked lane the game slides you to an open one first.
Read the silhouette, not the colour. Knee-high means jump; head-high means steer. That one distinction is the whole survival game.
Follow the coins. Arcs are built around the hurdle you are about to jump, so the line with the most gold is usually the line that clears.
Play the ten seconds after a stumble like they matter, because they do — that is the window where a second hit ends the run.
Save Rocket Flight for a bad stretch. Ten seconds of flight ignores hurdles, walls and everything else on the ground.
Flip the camera on a calm straight. It is the only way to see your monster, and the only place to admire the treasure once you are in the caves.
Free to play, no account, no forced sign-in. Learn the swipes in a minute and spend the rest of the week chasing your own record.
