CLASSIC is two minutes with eight holes and the highest score wins; being swallowed just shrinks you. BATTLE is sixteen holes with no clock, and a swallowed hole is eliminated - last hole standing wins. SOLO RUN is two minutes alone, scored on the percentage of the city you ate.

Yes. Classic and Battle put you at a shared table when other players are around, with the same city, the same events and the same starting size for everyone. Empty seats are filled so a round always starts.

Swallow objects. Every object you consume adds to your size, which raises the size limit of what you can swallow next. The order is roughly cones and bins, then benches and pedestrians, trees, cars, buses, houses, towers and finally the district landmarks.

Yes. Once you are about fifteen percent bigger than a rival hole you can swallow it whole. In Classic they come back small; in Battle they are out of the round. The same applies to you, so keep away from anything bigger.

Each event changes the rules temporarily. GOLD RUSH doubles all values, RUSH HOUR fills the roads with traffic, BLACKOUT turns off the lights, and TREMOR lets you swallow objects well above your normal size limit. The last twenty seconds of a timed round are a FEEDING FRENZY at double value.

No. Every hole starts the same size and there are no stats to grind. What you unlock is cosmetic and earned: six ring skins and two extra districts, each tied to an achievement such as finishing first in Classic, finishing top three in Battle or eating half the city in Solo Run. Locked skins can also be opened with a rewarded ad.

The landmark. Every district generates two of them - tall stepped skyscrapers with a red beacon on top. You need to be very large to take one, and swallowing your first unlocks the Ivory skin.