Dodge the Bull

Reading the charge

The bull does the running in this game. Your part is to be in its path when it sets off and out of that path when it arrives, and that is a matter of timing.

Two signals help you judge the moment. Watch the bull’s red target, and when the white flash appears, step off the line it is charging along. The game asks for a last-second dodge rather than an early one: move at the final instant and the bull carries on into the fence, which is where your points come from.

Aiming the crash

Any crash into the fence scores, but two spots are worth more: the golden door and the barrels, both of which pay bonus points. Since the bull keeps going wherever its charge carries it once you have stepped aside, the thing to think about before each dodge is what lies behind you, and whether a small change of position could line up the door or a barrel instead of plain fence.

Movement suits that kind of adjustment. With the keyboard, each arrow press is exactly one step, so you can shuffle into place a step at a time. On a phone you tap the spot you want and the clown steps toward it.

Six plazas

The tour takes in six plazas: Madrid, Sevilla, Granada, Pamplona, Mexico D.F. and one called the Gran Final. P pauses and resumes a run, M mutes and unmutes the sound, and on mobile the Retry button starts a fresh run whenever the bull gets the better of you.