A game from the newsletter
Keep the Dome Up!
Hold to inflate. Sag, then surge.
A blizzard is sitting on Sioux Center's air-supported dome and you're the one at the blower. Hold to keep the pressure up. Snow only comes off when the fabric surges: let the roof sag, then hold hard so it springs back and cracks the pile loose. Sag deeper for a bigger slide, but the low end is red, and a hard spring overshoots into the high red. Two seconds out of the green costs a life. Three lives. How long can you keep it standing?
Hold Space or the mouse · let go to sag
Free to play with your email. It also gets you the Mon/Wed/Fri newsletter.
A three-minute storm, the same one for everyone today. Stars at 1:00, 2:00 and the finish.
Longest time on the week's board Friday morning wins a prize. Board resets every week.
A blizzard.
A dome.
One thumb on the blower.
How long can you keep it up?
Three-minute storm · Prize every Friday
Leaderboard
This week's best time per keeper.
The board runs Friday through Thursday and resets every Friday morning. The longest time on top when Friday's 6:30 newsletter goes out wins a prize; ties go to inches cleared. We'll email the winner.
Hold
The blower runs while you hold. Pressure climbs, the dome swells. Let go and it slowly bleeds off; the more snow on the roof, the faster it drops.
Surge
Let go until the roof dips (the notch on the gauge marks how low you went), then hold: the fabric springs up and the pile cracks and slides off in clumps. The deeper the sag, the harder the spring and the bigger the slide (and the more buried somebody's pickup). A deep sag also snaps up fast enough to overshoot, so let go before the needle hits the top red.
Survive
Everything is announced before it hits: a blizzard warning three seconds ahead, a team walking up before the door opens (pressure drops while it's open), a gust arrow before the needle gets shoved. Three lives, then the dome sinks like a marshmallow (nobody's hurt). Ride out the full three minutes and the storm breaks.
Free to play. Made in Sioux County, inspired by the real dome in Sioux Center. All the games · What's Coffee & County?