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Chop the giant log as fast as you can. Tap the left or right side to swing your axe and switch sides, but never stand where a branch is coming down. Each chop refills the timer a little — keep it from running out.
Your lumberjack stands at the foot of a tall log. Tap the left half of the screen to chop from the left, or the right half to chop from the right. Each tap swings the axe, removes the bottom slice, and drops the whole log down by one.
Branches stick out from the log on the left or right. If you are standing on the same side as the branch that drops to your level, it hits you and the game ends. Look one slice ahead: the branch about to reach you decides which side is safe, so tap the opposite side.
The bar across the top is your time, and it drains continuously. Every successful chop tops it up a little, so the only way to keep going is to keep chopping. The faster you score, the faster the bar drains — the log never stops growing back.
Score is the number of slices you cut. There is no finish line; play for a high score and a place in the Hall of Fame.
The branch that matters is never the one you are chopping — it is the one directly above it, the slice that is about to drop to your feet. Train your eyes to read that next slice instead of the bottom one, and your hands to tap the opposite side a beat early. Good players barely look at the log they are cutting.
Fall into a rhythm rather than racing. A steady left-right-left tap keeps the timer comfortably full and lets your eyes stay one slice ahead; frantic mashing makes you tap the side you are already on and miss an incoming branch. Speed comes from consistency, not from panic.
When two or three branches stack on the same side, you can chop several times in a row from the safe side without switching — there is no penalty for staying put, only for being on the wrong side when a branch lands. Use these one-sided runs to bank quick chops and refill the bar before a tricky alternating section.
The timer drains faster as your score climbs, so the bar is tightest exactly when you are doing well. Keep a small buffer: chop a couple of extra times during easy stretches so a sudden run of branches on alternating sides does not catch you with an empty bar. Survival is a timer game wearing a reflex game's clothes.