GRANDAD

LOOKS TAKEN click a line or a crossing, then L

No looks yet. From the gate you can see the lines, their patterns and where they cross, but not a single stride.

THE PAGE an animal and a place in the night for every line

GRANDAD'S TRACK CARD

WHAT THE SNOW KNOWS

It snowed in the night and stopped. The paddock is a white page, and every line across it is one animal's walk.
You and Grandad have a Track Card, a few looks before the light goes, and three rules.
Write the night down: who made each line, and in what order. He only says "right" when all of it is.

THIS WINTER

SPACE to pull your boots on

SPACE to open the gate

GRANDAD'S RULES

The later one cuts through. Where two lines cross, the animal that came second leaves its print on top. Chains of crossings order lines that never touch.
Never the same visitor twice. Every line on a field is a different animal.
Hare, rabbit and pheasant bolt at fresh hunter sign. The first time one crosses a line a fox, cat or stoat made earlier that night, a hare or rabbit breaks into long bounds and a pheasant takes off. It always bolts. So a calm crossing means the other line came later, or never hunted.

A look reads one stretch of one line (toes, width, stride, pattern) or one crossing (which line is on top). Find the reading on the Track Card: the toes and pattern narrow it, the stride settles it.

Esc back to the paddock

A DIFFERENT NIGHT?

Same paddock, fresh snow, new animals. Your looks and your page go with the old snow.

R yes, fresh snow Esc no, keep reading this one

LOOKS TAKEN click a line or a crossing, then L

THE PAGE an animal and a place in the night for every line

GRANDAD'S TRACK CARD

WHAT THE SNOW KNOWS

THIS WINTER

GRANDAD'S RULES

A DIFFERENT NIGHT?

THE WINTER, WRITTEN DOWN

WHAT THE SNOW KNOWS