Out in the yard after supper, with the jar your grandmother kept. A lightning bug is only there when she blinks — the rest of the time she is drifting somewhere in the dark. Swing where you reckon she got to, and when the evening is over you let every one of them go.

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• Click or tapTap to swing the jar. You catch whatever is inside it — lit or not. The blink is how you find her, not when you can take her.
• She only shows for a moment, then drifts on in the dark. Swing soon after the blink — every second you wait, she is further from where you saw her.
• Three kinds are out tonight, and you tell them apart by how they blink, not by colour.
• Once in the evening the whole field falls in step and blinks together. That is your best few seconds.
• When the evening ends the lid comes off and they all go home.
• ✨ Premium members get the other four containers and their best evening saved to their account.

🌙 Turn the page lights down for the evening — they come back up when it ends. Out to the yard

Click or tapTap where you think she drifted to  ·  P or Esc pause