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Singularity strategy: graze the sidewalks, time the towers and swallow the Dark Star

How growing, the size you can eat, the city quota, combos, spark mines, boost and the Dark Star work, and how to snowball a city in under a minute.

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Start on the sidewalks

The hole starts small enough to eat only lamps, people, cones, bins and benches. The plazas in the middle of the city are packed with them, and lamps line every block. Sweep those first: every bite adds its area to the hole, and the hole grows fastest early on.

Know what fits

Anything the hole can swallow is drawn normally; anything too big shows a red outline as you get close. A call-out tells you each time you grow enough for the next size: houses, then towers, then skyscrapers. Cars and buses drive the roads and fall in as soon as they fit.

The quota is by area

The bar at the top is the share of the city you have eaten, measured by area, against the quota marker. Towers and skyscrapers hold most of the city's area, so a small hole that eats everything small still cannot pass a late level. Grow first, then cash in the big buildings before the clock runs out.

Keep the combo hot

Bites within half a second of each other chain, and every six links raise the multiplier, up to ×10. Plan a route along a row of lamps or through a car lot so the bites keep coming, and save the big buildings for when the multiplier is high.

Mines and boost

Red spark mines sit on the roads, and from level 3 some patrol them. Touching one costs the hole about a fifth of what it has eaten, breaks the combo and slows you for a moment. Boost gives a burst of speed every six seconds: use it to cross an empty road, chase a bus or reach the far side of the city before time runs out.

The Dark Star

Every fifth level a rival void starts in the corner and eats the same city. The bar shows who is bigger. Once you are clearly bigger (about a sixth), drive over it to swallow it for a jackpot and a spare life. If it gets clearly bigger than you, run: it hunts you, and it will swallow you.

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