Pumpkin Smash

Pumpkin Smash is a 45-second Halloween whack-fest played on a 3×3 patch grid. Press Start Round and targets begin popping up out of the patches. A regular pumpkin is worth 10 points and stays up for about one second; a golden star is worth 30 points but vanishes in roughly 0.6 seconds, so it pays to keep your mallet resting near the middle of the board. Ghosts also drift up from the patches — tapping one costs you 15 points, so the winning habit is to move your cursor away the moment you see purple.

Every four clean hits in a row raise your combo multiplier one step, from ×1 up to a ×4 cap, and the multiplier applies to whatever you smash next: a golden star caught at ×4 is worth 120 points. The streak is fragile. Hitting a ghost or clicking an empty patch resets the combo to zero, so late-round greed is what separates a 300-point round from a 900-point one.

The spawn pace tightens as the round ages — targets start appearing about every 0.9 seconds and the interval shrinks by 10 milliseconds for every second on the clock, bottoming out at 0.45 seconds. Your best score is stored locally in this browser and shown next to the score panel, so every round is a race against your own record.