How to play
- Every diner at your feet pays you each second they keep eating. More diners show up the longer the food is good and cheap.
- Raise the price with the plus button. The red line is the most this crowd will put up with. Charge right up to it and the money comes in fast. Go past it and they notice.
- A diner who notices puts their fork down and looks up at you, with a yellow ring around them. They stop paying, and they get the people next to them to look up too.
- Pick a snack and tap the crowd to drop it. Everyone it lands on goes back to eating for a while.
- If half the crowd is looking up at once for a few seconds, everyone walks out. Get to a billion dollars first.
The snacks
- Fry shower A small handful. Cheap, and good for one diner who just looked up.
- Donut drop Covers a table or two and keeps them busy longer.
- Soda fountain A wide splash for a whole corner of the room.
- Family bucket Big and slow to wear off. Costs a lot.
- Free refills Everyone, everywhere, for a little while. The most expensive thing on the menu.
Snacks cost more as your prices and your crowd go up, so a fry shower is never pocket change. New snacks show up once the crowd is big enough to need them.
Keys
1 to 5 picks a snack, the up and down arrows change the price, and space pauses.
Questions
- How do you win Big Cheese?
- Get to a billion dollars before the crowd walks out. The faster you get there, the better your time.
- Why do the diners look up?
- They notice the price. The higher you set it, the sooner they notice, and past the red line they notice fast. A diner who looks up stops paying and gets the people next to them to look up too.
- How do you lose?
- If half the crowd is looking up at the same time for a few seconds, everyone walks out and the run is over.
- Is it free?
- Yes. It runs in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no ads and no account.
- Does it save my best run?
- Your best time is saved in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.