Push The Frog

Push The Frog gives you a hungry little frog and a level full of mosquitoes. The goal is to eat them all, and the way to do it is to move the frog to exactly the right spot so its tongue can reach.

Tongue length is the key idea. The description asks you to master how far the frog’s tongue extends, because it determines where the frog needs to stand to catch each insect. That turns every level into a small planning problem: you have to think carefully about the route and get the frog to the appropriate position before it can feed.

Real frogs catch prey with a fast, sticky tongue, so the game’s central rule is a playful nod to how these animals actually hunt. The developer calls the style simple and interesting and the gameplay educational and novel. It is pitched as an ideal game for killing time, and the short logic levels suit exactly that: a few minutes of thinking whenever you have a break.

1. Look at where the mosquitoes are in the level.
2. Work out how far the frog's tongue can reach.
3. Plan a route and move the frog into position.
4. Eat every mosquito to clear the level.

Plan the whole route before the first move. Picking off the nearest mosquito first can leave the frog stuck in the wrong spot for the rest.