How to play
Answer the prompt. A rarer valid answer lifts your balloon higher, and a rising storm pops anyone it catches. Up to 12 players. Balloons you own do not change how high an answer lifts you.
Join
- A server holds one match at a time, for up to 12 players.
- Between matches, a 15 second countdown runs. Stand in the center of the deck to play the next one.
- If nobody is standing there when it hits zero, the countdown starts again.
- New players start with the Classic Balloon, 400 coins, and one use of every lobby toy and match item.
A round
- A match is 7 rounds. Each round gives you 15 seconds to lock in an answer.
- Only a valid answer can be locked in. A close spelling can ask "Did you mean …?" Confirming uses that answer. The game does not guess for you.
- Then the balloons rise, and the storm follows. The whole reveal takes about 5 seconds.
- What you typed is shown to everyone after the reveal.
How high an answer lifts you
The phrase on your balloon is the whole rarity. Two people who lock in the same answer get the same lift.
| Phrase | Lift | Career points |
|---|---|---|
| Barely Floating | 20 m | 10 |
| Getting Air | 30 m | 25 |
| Rising Above | 45 m | 45 |
| Head in the Clouds | 65 m | 70 |
| Out of This World | 90 m | 100 |
| ONE IN A BALLOONION! | 120 m | 500 |
ONE IN A BALLOONION! plays a short show for everyone and a line in chat. A blank or late answer lifts nothing. Career points from an answer stay even if the storm pops you that same round.
The storm
Every round has one. The HUD shows the exact height it is climbing to. Anyone at or below that height is popped, falls, and comes back to the lobby. Round 1 never goes above 10 meters, so any valid answer clears it. The storm never goes above 300 meters.
| Round | Where it can land |
|---|---|
| 1 | 9–10 m |
| 2 | 20–24 m |
| 3 | 58–71 m |
| 4 | 96–118 m |
| 5 | 137–169 m |
| 6 | 184–227 m |
| 7 | 239–294 m |
Winning
- If two or more people started and only one is still flying, that player wins on the spot.
- If several people are still up after round 7, the highest balloon wins. A tie shares the win.
- If the storm pops everyone at once, nobody wins.
- A solo match plays all seven rounds. Surviving it does not count as a multiplayer win.
- Each winner of a multiplayer match gets 100 career points. Shared winners each get the full 100.
Coins
Coins come from the height your answers earned, at half a coin per meter. If more than two people started, a win bonus of 5% per extra player applies, up to 50%. A winner gets the full bonus. Someone who lasted to the end without winning gets half of it. A popped player gets the base coins. Solo matches have no bonus.
After the match
The results card stays up for 10 seconds. Survive 3 rounds and a Storm Stash opens on that card. Come back another day for the daily streak. A missed day pauses it:
- Day 1: A Storm Stash
- Day 2: 200 coins
- Day 3: A Lift-Off Crate
- Day 4: 300 coins
- Day 5: A Stratosphere Crate
- Day 6: 500 coins
- Day 7: A Daydream Crate
Spend coins on balloon crates. Claim rank rewards in the Rank Hall. Match items, which change a round for everybody, are listed with the items.