CharSpin

CharSpin turns Chinese characters into spinning tops. A character's strokes are its top's shape: how many there are, how lopsided they sit and how heavy the typeface is decide how long it spins and how hard it hits.

THE THOUSAND CHARACTER CLASSIC Every top comes from the 1,500-year-old Thousand Character Classic. Start with its first line; knowing six in ten characters of a section opens the next, all the way to the last. Characters come in four typefaces — sans, serif, clerical and seal script — for 3,875 tops.

PULL, AIM, LAUNCH Hold and pull back to start the countdown; let go right on "Shoot!" for a perfect launch. Once a match you can knock the stadium to shake a top into a pocket.

FIRST TO 4 POINTS Xtreme finish 3, over finish 2, burst finish 2, spin finish 1. Your three tops go out in order; your opponent's order stays hidden until each one steps up. Keep up to three teams and pick one before each match.

IDIOM STAGES AND PHANTOMS In 決鬥 → 闖關, four chapters (Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin and Han) hold six stages each, one Chinese idiom a stage. Read its reading, source, meaning and story, then battle its four characters one at a time; win two to pass, and the characters you beat become your tops, some of them found nowhere else. Eighteen stages also give a Phantom the first time you pass: put it on a top for a small steady boost and a chance of a special move in battle, and it grows with every battle it joins. Phantoms are earned in play only, never sold. Meanings and stories are quoted from the Ministry of Education’s Dictionary of Chinese Idioms.

FACE-TO-FACE TWO-PLAYER Pair two phones with a QR code and play over a direct connection — no internet needed, just keep Wi‑Fi on. If they can't reach each other, phones signed in to Game Center pair over the internet instead. Two-player matches pay double coins.

CHARACTER BOOK All 999 characters of the Classic, each with its reading (zhuyin and pinyin) read aloud, meaning, radical, stroke count, its line in the Classic and common words, from Taiwan's Ministry of Education dictionaries. The 11 hardest are replaced by an easier stand-in character, with a note on the original.

LOOKS An optional Launch Set adds two skins (Dewdrop Blue Pegasus and Sky-Water Green Asura) and two stickers, Season 2 adds two more (Frost-White Valkyrie and Desert-Ochre Wolf) and two stickers, and Season 3 two more (Dawn-Gold Round Table Knight and Night-Ink Purple Samurai) and two stickers, each bought on its own, or the S1 Pass, which holds every set of series S1: these three now, and later S1 sets unlock at no extra cost when they arrive. Each skin trails its own effect while it spins and bursts with a signature flourish on a hard hit. Looks only — a top plays exactly the same. A one-time purchase, not currency, with a grown-up check first. Everything else is free.

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