Owl Archery

Cosy 3D archery: a bright tawny owl in a tiny leather bracer draws his little ash bow and looses three arrows an end at a classic straw target, against the archery club's cheekiest crow.

That's the only thing to do: pull back, let go, and hear the straw go THOCK. The arrow arcs down the range on a ghost guide, and every good one gets a NICE!, a puff of straw dust and a happy wing-ruffle. Three arrows, a score to beat, half a minute an end.

• Four handmade ranges, each with a trick: sunlit meadow butts with a cross-breeze (watch the bunting), a candle-lit barn loft where the lamp's glare blooms over the face, a misty forest clearing where the mist hides the gold, and a moonlit castle battlement where the cold air makes arrows drop.
• Arrows that behave like arrows: 6 to 12 metres, the ten-ring face, the small face and the three-spot; a shaft on the line takes the higher ring, the rope rim can bounce one off, and once in a blue moon you'll split an arrow for a Robin Hood.
• Rook the crow chalks every arrow, shoots his three after yours and taunts the misses. Twice a range he steps up for a head-to-head (the first comes four ends in): he shoots first and leaves his shafts in the gold, and a tie is a one-arrow shoot-off.
• A Daily Board with a streak and a leaderboard, and a Weekly Match of six ends with its own board, every one proven clearable at par.
• Three goals an end ("hit a gold", "every arrow scores", "beat Rook") earn picks of fletchings, bows and Hoot's bracers and hats, and a 30-page Archer's Journal of owl facts, archery history and fletching lore.

48 ends, 144 stars, 144 goals, 27 trophies, a new board every day and a new match every week.

Short ends, a score to beat, no rush. Relaxed shows the whole flight and has a soft rim; Expert gives you a short stub of a guide, a tighter par, a wider rim and a live breeze on every range.

Owl Archery is free to play. Every range, every end, the Daily Board, the Weekly Match, all three difficulties and every fletching, bow, bracer and hat are earned by playing. There is no paid content and there are no ads.

Plays on desktop and phones: one thumb, a mouse, or the keyboard alone, portrait or landscape. Your progress, and an end in progress, are saved to your Wavedash account.