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I is for Impatience
Harry the Hasty Hare
A hare who wants his carrots grown by morning, and digs them up to check.
What happens in it
Harry plants his seeds and cannot wait a single day, so he yanks the sprouts and rushes every chore. Twice a level you choose what Harry does, and it plays out.
Choose what he does
Each level has two scenes. Two things Harry could do appear, and you pick one.
Nothing is timed and there is no going back - whichever you pick plays out.
Both right in a level is three stars, one is two, neither is one.
Tap a card, or use the left and right arrow keys.
The three levels
- The Hasty Garden — Rushing the Seeds, then Half-Done Chores
- The Waiting Game — Pulling on Sprouts, then Watching the Golden Carrots
- The Patient Harvest — Tending the Patch, then The Harvest Celebration
Why impatience is one of the twenty-six
Sing Me a Fable is an alphabet of faults, one for every letter, from Aggression to Zealotry. I is impatience, and this is the playable half of that fable: the child makes the choice the animal makes, and watches what it costs. Nobody explains the moral afterwards, which is the whole point of a fable and the reason the form has lasted two and a half thousand years.
Every letter has one: twenty-six fables, twenty-six faults, twenty-six games. See the whole arcade, or take the twenty-six colouring posters and Find the Error sheets free.
