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To play Smack the penguin, click the mouse once to get the penguin to jump. Then, as the penguin is falling, click your mouse button again to swing. If you hit the penguin, it will fly across the icy field. The objective (obviously) is to get the penguin to fly as far as possible.
Hint: After the penguin begins its jump, hold down your mouse button and then let go at the exact moment you want to swing to improve your accuracy.
The penguin will land in one of two ways: head-first or bouncing. If you hit the penguin high, it will fly through the air belly-first, soaring upward (sometimes off the screen) and landing in the snow head first. Hit the penguin at its highest point in the freefall to get the most distance.
While landing the penguin head-first looks really cool, you'll need to bounce the penguin to get the high scores. Hit the penguin just a little lower to get him soaring nose-first through the air. If you hit the penguin too low, it won't glide very far. Hit it just right to get him gliding high. The penguin will bounce a few times before skidding to a stop.
The game has been referred to by various names, including Pinguin (or Pingu), Smack the Penguin, Yeti & Penguin Baseball and probably several others.
Chris Hilgert, from the Austrian game company Edelweiss Medienwerkstatt, is the inventor of the game, now formally known as Yeti Sports.
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