Whirlpool Gobble: 2 Player

Put one phone between two players. The screen is one sandy beach table: the bottom half belongs to one player, the top half to the other. There are no turns. Both of you play at the same time, steering your own whirlpool with a single thumb. A whirlpool gobbles up anything smaller than itself: shells, pebbles, sandcastle bits, rubber ducks. Every gulp makes it grow, and the bigger it gets, the bigger the things it can swallow. But it can never swallow something bigger than itself. Watch out for the purple spiky sea urchins! Swallow one and your whirlpool shrinks while the urchin pops right back out. The skill is reading the pile, not just eating everything. A big duck sits in the middle, and both of you want it. A whirlpool that is big enough to swallow it glows gold and wears a little crown, while the other one breaks into a nervous sweat. If the duck is wobbling on the rim and a…