Whack A Mole is a short arcade game: moles pop out of nine burrows and you tap them before they duck back down. It plays in the browser; the Play box at the end of this article shows where it is live.
We played the web build on 13 November 2026 with a mouse, four full rounds. Our scores were 3, 8, 2 and 4, so our best is 8. That is a modest score, and this guide sticks to what we actually saw.
The title screen
The game opens on a sunset meadow with the title Whack A Mole, the line Tap moles before they vanish! and one big STOMP! button. There are no modes or menus to choose from: STOMP! starts a round straight away.
The globe button at the bottom opens a fan of eight languages: EN, VN, TW, CN, JP, ES, HI and FR. We switched between Vietnamese and English a few times; the title, the button and the end screen changed each time, and we saw no overlapping text in either language.
A round
A round lasts 45 seconds. The meadow has nine burrows in three rows, and the corners show Score and Best on the left, Time and Level on the right. Usually one mole was up at a time; now and then two were up together.
Each mole you tap adds to Score while you play. Best updates when the round ends, not during it: in our 8-point round, the corner still read Best 3 until the end card appeared.
In that round the Level counter moved from 1 to 2 with about 11 seconds left. In our 2-point round we were still on Level 1 with 12 seconds to go, so the level seems to follow how well you are doing rather than the clock alone. We did not play long enough to measure how much faster the moles get.
The golden mole
Sometimes a golden mole with a pale ring around it appears instead of a brown one. We saw it near the end of three rounds. We tapped at it but could not tell for sure from the score whether we hit it, so we cannot tell you what it is worth.
Misses and the end card
Taps that miss cost nothing. We clicked the sky six times in a row: the score stayed the same and the timer kept running normally. Moles that duck back down untouched did not take points away either.
When time runs out you get a Round Over card with Score, Best and Play Again. Our best of 8 was still there after we reloaded the page, so the browser remembers it.
We did not find a leaderboard or a combo counter in this build; the only record we saw is your own Best.
Tips for your first rounds
- Tap without hesitating. Since a miss costs nothing, a quick tap on a mole that is already ducking is always worth it.
- Rest your pointer in the middle. The centre burrow is the shortest reach to all eight others.
- Watch the corners. Our misses were mostly moles in the far corners, especially when two were up at once.
- Save some focus for the last seconds. We saw the golden mole near the end of a round more than once.
- Play a few rounds in a row. Our scores went from 3 to 8 and back down, so one round says little.
