ThreadBall

You never touch the ball. You draw threads — glowing lines that bend its path — and the ball obeys physics from there. Your first thread launches it. After that you are drawing live, mid-flight, improvising. And every thread dissolves in seconds. The line you drew a moment ago will not be there when the ball comes back around. Every basket is a small plan that falls apart, and the fun is in keeping it alive. HOW IT WORKS • Drag anywhere on the court to draw a thread - try a line under the ball first • Release it and the ball launches • Threads are trampolines — bounce, bank and lob the ball into the rim • Graze a thread at an angle and the ball picks up spin, then keeps bending after the thread is gone — draw a bend to curl one around a keeper • Ink is limited and refills on its own, so quick taps beat one huge ramp • Touch the floor and the shot is over SCORING A basket is 2 points. Swishes, bank shots off the glass, dunks, buzzer beaters and long-way-round shots all score extra, and so does a shot that turned on spin. Chain baskets and the multiplier climbs — up to x5. Three in a row and the court catches fire. In Arcade, every basket buys you three more seconds, and the clock never cuts a shot off mid-flight. You are not really trying to score. You are trying not to stop. ONE SHOT AT A TIME Miss and the course stays exactly as it was — the layout, and the timing of anything moving in it, only changes when the ball actually goes in. You get to learn a shot before you are asked to move on, and a near miss is an invitation to try again rather than the loss of the shot you had almost solved. SHOTS COME IN DIFFERENT SHAPES • Sometimes the hoop is on the left, and the whole court is mirrored • Sometimes there are two balls, and the shot counts only when both are in, so you are threading one lane that serves the pair • Sometimes the ball is already moving when the course appears. No planning stroke, just read and react • Sometimes the tee drifts, so when you release is a decision Only one at a time. Two at once is not twice the variety, it is an unreadable course. SOMEONE IS TRYING TO STOP YOU From the last free level onwards, a keeper shadows the rim. It is slower than the ball, so it cannot be overpowered — only wrong-footed. Change height late and it cannot follow. MEDALS AND COLOURS Eighteen medals for specific things — five in a row, a swish, a dunk, a score on spin, sinking a two-ball course, clearing a level in three threads. They unlock four thread colours as you earn them, and a set of goals to chase that is not a score. BEAT MY SHOT Every run has a seed, and a seed is the whole run: .../threadball#s=48213 play my exact run .../threadball#s=48213&t=42 ...and I scored 42 There is a box on the menu to play a friend's seed directly. No account, no server, no leaderboard to sign up to. The result screen makes a shareable shot card — your score, the seed, and a drawing of the best shot you made — and there is a Share button and a Save image button under it. SO MANY LEVELS Sixteen fixed levels — hand-made, learnable designs: First Thread, Higher Ground, Off the Glass, Low Post, Crosswind, The Pillar, Windmill, The Keeper (free) · Narrow, Twin Pillars, Weather, Double Blade, Corkscrew, Needle, Quick Hands, The Gauntlet (supporter). They introduce one idea at a time, and each is a fixed layout you can memorise and master. Everything else is generated — Arcade, Zen, Hard, Chaos, Daily, Championship, Challenge. There's no fixed count, because the layout is drawn from a seed. Spawn and hoop alone give about 283 million combinations, before obstacles; the seed space caps it at roughly 2.1 billion runs.

ThreadBall 1.11.1 The final release is here. Play the free Weekly Challenge: eight seeded courses, the same for everyone from Monday to Sunday. Your best score for the week becomes the target on your next run, and a fresh challenge starts every Monday. This release also includes the colourblind-safe keeper option and a clearer first-run demonstration. No account, ads, analytics or internet connection required.