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Animal Stacking Tower: Zoo Balance

Animal Stacking Tower: Zoo Balance is a physics balance puzzle. You are handed a random animal: panda, tiger, giraffe, hippo, elephant, capybara, crocodile, penguin and more. Rotate it and drop it onto a narrow green platform so the tower keeps standing.

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About this game

Every animal has its own shape, weight and centre of gravity. A long giraffe lies across the pile like a bridge, a round hippo anchors the base, a red panda hooks on with its tail. The pile grows, the balance point wanders, and one bad drop brings it all down. Two modes. In battle you and an opponent take turns adding to one shared tower: whoever knocks an animal off the platform loses. In solo you count how many animals you kept up before the collapse, and your record is saved. Honest physics, no randomness beyond the shapes themselves. Plays on phone and on desktop.

How to play

Drag the animal left and right with a finger or the mouse to choose where it lands. A dashed line and a translucent silhouette show the landing spot. The two round buttons on either side turn the animal both ways, 15 degrees per press, and hold one down to keep it turning. The animal only falls when you press Drop, so you are free to keep adjusting the spot and the angle for as long as you like. After a drop, let the pile settle. If no animal has fallen below the platform, the turn passes to your opponent. If one has, the player who just moved loses. Tip: put heavy, wide animals at the bottom, use long ones as a crossbeam, and save the small ones for the top. A flat surface up top hands your opponent an easy turn, so it is sometimes worth leaving an awkward slope behind.

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