GlobeFlakeHush

You hold a glass globe in your hand. On its floor, faint as breath on a window, there is the outline of a little cabin. You give it a shake, and thousands of flakes fill the glass. Now you guide them home. Drag your finger around the globe and it tilts toward your touch. The snow follows gravity, drifting and fluttering as it falls, sliding along the curve of the glass when you lean. Rock it gently side to side and loose snow sweeps across the floor. Where it crosses the frosted picture, it clings and packs, a little at a time. Hold the globe still and everything settles where it lies, so choose your moment. Turn it right over to lift stubborn snow into the air and carry it somewhere new. Each globe is scored on how much of the picture you filled and how little snow ended up outside it, with up to three stars and a small bonus for finishing before the globe hushes on its own. Forty…