Trampoline Trick

Trampoline Trick is a side-view timing game about one thing: the moment the mat is at its deepest. As you drop, a ring closes on the pad under your feet. Tap or press Space when it meets the pad and the push-off is perfect; a little early and it is only good, and the bed springs back with exactly the energy you gave it. Every bounce builds on the last, so a run of perfect pushes climbs from a small hop to well over ten metres.

In the air you have six tricks on the buttons or the keys 1 to 6: tuck, pike, straddle, seat drop, half twist and full twist. Each one costs a little height and scores points, and the flips really spin: pull into a tuck and you rotate faster, open out and you slow down again. Come down upright and the crowd cheers; come down crooked and you get a wobbly bum landing that only costs height. On the Beach Pier the sea wind pushes you sideways, so lean against it with the arrows.

Forty quick routines in four venues, the Back Garden, the Gym Hall, the Beach Pier and the Night Show with its spotlights, ask you to reach a height ring, pop the balloons, land a trick sequence, stick a landing on a floating mat or chain ten perfect pushes. Each has three stars: the goal, a par number of bounces and a golden balloon far up. High Bounce is the endless mode: bounce as high as you can, string tricks together for a score multiplier and chase your high score, which is saved in your browser. Pick one of six gymnasts; P pauses and M mutes.