Jester Toss

Inside the game

JESTER TOSS is a portrait one-finger aiming game set on a paper circus stage between layered velvet curtains. Your guide is Motley, a jester in a harlequin suit and a belled cap, and every act is a race against the toss count: fill the order of balls, clubs and plates before the tosses run out.

Control is a single drag. Put your finger anywhere on the stage and pull back from the ribbon sling between two jester staffs; a dotted guide shows the first part of the arc. Let go and the prop flies along a real curve under gravity. A pull that is too short is simply cancelled and costs nothing. Music volume, sound effects and stage shake can each be changed in Settings.

Each prop has its own hat: a ball goes into the ruby hat, a club into the teal hat, a plate into the amber hat. The first three acts use two hats, and from act 4 all three hang over the stage. Act 1 asks for 4 props with 7 tosses, and every act after it asks for more, up to 19 props with 30 tosses on act 30. The next props wait in a queue at the bottom of the screen, so you always know what comes after this toss.