Oops Inc.

Oops Inc. is a tall office building, and you are its newest intern. Every job in the place comes to you, one floor at a time. The lift doors close, the display ticks up, and when they open there is a small sign for the department, one big word, a hand showing what to do and a few seconds on the fuse along the top. Do the job and the lift moves on. Get it wrong and the office shows it: coffee everywhere, a desk phone melting into a sad pile, the intern shooting up through the ceiling.

There are twenty-four tasks, each a little job of its own. STACK! drops boxes from a crane onto a pallet, and every box needs real support from the one below. POUR! fills a mug with coffee: hold to pour and let go between the marks. NAP! lets you doze at your desk while the big, kind boss doodles on the whiteboard, as long as you wake up when a foot starts tapping. CATCH! slides a tray under falling donuts, FLIP! turns the pancake while it is golden, THROW! is five darts with an aim that sways on its own, and DANCE! is a row of arrows to swipe while a colleague copies every move. You tap, hold, drag, swipe and mash, and the first floors start with the easiest jobs.

A shift is endless and lasts until all three coffee mugs are spilt, one for every task you fail. The pace creeps up floor by floor, with a FASTER! sign every five floors, up to about twice the speed. Every tenth floor is a BOSS FLOOR, a harder version of a task with a little more time. Clear it and you are PROMOTED!, from Intern to Mail Runner, Junior Clerk and on to Owner of the Building, and a spilt mug is refilled. The SHIFT REVIEW shows the floor you reached, your best floor, the tasks done and your job title. Your best floor is saved in your browser, and every task you have met waits in the TASKS list to be practised on its own.