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Honey Hive: free ladders and platforms game

One beekeeper, ten screens of honeycomb, ladders and wax lifts. Grab every honey pot before the bonus runs out, jump over the worker bees and get away from the queen wasp once she leaves her nest. Free, no account needed.

How to play

• On a phone, use the big arrows at the bottom left to walk and to climb up or down ladders, and the JUMP button on the right. On a computer: arrow keys, A and D or Q and P to walk, up arrow or W to climb (away from a ladder it jumps), down arrow or S to climb down, and space to jump.
• On each screen, grab every honey pot (100 points each). Pollen seeds are worth 50, but the bees eat them if they get there first. The V coin is worth 250 points and, with an account, helps you earn more stars at the end.
• Bees walk along the platforms and climb ladders: one touch and you lose a life, so jump over them. After a while the queen wasp leaves her nest and flies after you, slowly but without stopping. Falling too far also costs a life: dropping one floor is safe, two is not.
• Some screens have wax lifts that keep going up: jump on one and step off at the right floor before you reach the ceiling. The bonus counts down and whatever is left at the end of the screen is added to your score. If it hits zero, you lose a life.
• You start with 5 lives and get an extra one every 10,000 points. After screen 10 the screens repeat, faster. On the daily screen, the same for everyone, you have 3 lives and each life left is worth 300 points; only your first game of the day counts for the leaderboard.

Where this game comes from

Ladders-and-platforms games were born in the arcades around 1980 and soon reached the 8-bit home computers that plugged into the television and loaded games from cassette tapes. On a single fixed screen, the player climbed ladders, jumped over gaps and dodged enemies that followed simple paths.

Honey Hive is our take on that style, with everything made from scratch: the beekeeper, the bees, the queen wasp, the ten screens and the sounds.

Our beekeeper’s pale suit and veiled hat are the classic gear of anyone who works with bees, protecting the face and neck from stings. The movable-frame hive, still used today, was patented by Lorenzo Langstroth in 1852.

Free game, no betting and no prizes. Your game is saved on this device.