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W is for Wastefulness
Wally the Walrus
A walrus with more fish than he can eat, flinging the rest into the sea — right up until the bay freezes.
What happens in it
Wally has a mountain of fish and two hungry seal pups at his flipper. Twice a level you choose what he does, and it plays out.
Choose what he does
Each level has two scenes. Somebody is hungry, or the store is bare, and two things Wally could do appear.
Nothing is timed and there is no going back — whichever you pick plays out.
The right answer is not always on the same side, so read both.
Tap a card, or use the left and right arrow keys.
The three levels
- The Big Catch — Juggling the Feast, then The Soft Plea
- The Frozen Bare Store — The Cold Freeze, then The Empty Ice
- The Shared Meal — The Apology and the Plan, then The Community Feast
Why wastefulness is one of the twenty-six
Sing Me a Fable is an alphabet of faults, one for every letter, from Aggression to Zealotry. W is wastefulness, 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.
