Sing Me a Fable › Play Me Arcade › Y
Y is for Yelling
Yanni the Yak
The loudest voice in the meadow, and a morning when nobody is left to hear it.
What happens in it
Yanni has the loudest voice in the meadow and uses all of it. Mimi jumps, Bramble covers his ears, and one morning nobody is left. Twice a level you choose what Yanni does, and it plays out.
Choose what he does
Each level has two scenes. Yanni can raise his voice or lower it, and two things he 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
- A Megaphone in Meadow — Morning Megaphone, then Making a Case
- Why Hills Empties — The Echoing Peak, then The Silent Forest
- A Calm Voice Wins Always — The Soft Approach, then The Meadow Gathering
Why yelling is one of the twenty-six
Sing Me a Fable is an alphabet of faults, one for every letter, from Aggression to Zealotry. Y is yelling, 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.
