How to Play
StarCatcher is a baseball-inspired weekly mini-game where your completed tasks become tickets to play. Each week you face a pitcher from a distant planet, read the clues, guess the pitch, and try to catch the star.
Earning Tickets
Complete tasks on your Daily Card to earn tickets — one ticket per completed task, up to five per day. More tasks done means more chances to play each week.
The Weekly Cycle
Games run Monday through Sunday. You then have until the middle of the following week to play the games you earned — a week settles the following Wednesday, when any games you didn't play are auto-simulated for you. The result still counts either way, but an auto-simulated game isn't yours to play.
Game Phases
Each game moves through four phases in sequence.
1. Tell Phase
The pitcher reveals a hint clue. You play a short tell mini-game — one of several types including Blackjack, Go Fish, Hold'em, Role Reversal, Sequence Recall, The Number, and Wheel of Fortune. Win the mini-game and you receive three hints about the incoming pitch type. You can also skip the tell entirely and play blind.
2. Guess Phase
Pick the pitch type you think is coming, drawing on the standard pitch types plus whatever the pitcher's planet brings to the table. Use your hints — or your gut.
3. Pitch Phase
Watch the pitch animate in. This is the moment of truth.
4. Catch Phase
A circular target zone appears. Click or tap inside it to catch the star. The closer to the center, the better your result.
Catch Quality
Where you land inside the target zone determines your catch quality:
| Quality | Zone |
|---|---|
| Flare | Outer ring |
| Nova | Middle ring |
| Supernova | Inner ring |
| Galaxy | Dead center |
Results
| Result | What happened |
|---|---|
| Catch | You hit the zone — quality determined by placement |
| Out | You missed the zone entirely |
| Walk | Four pitches let go — automatic base, no action needed |
| Fallen | Three strikes — game over for this series |
Note
Here, a series means a single game's life — you're out once you take three strikes. That's different from a Stats Series, which is a tracking period like a week or a month. See the Glossary if the two ever blur.