Bracha Catcher

How to play

• Every food has one of six brachot: hamotzi, mezonot, hagafen, ha'etz, ha'adama or shehakol. Tap the right basket. On a keyboard, use keys 1 to 6.
• The sooner you pick, the more points you get. Every five right answers in a row raise the bonus, up to five times the points.
• A wrong basket, or a food that reaches the ground, costs a life. After three, the game is over.
• After each mistake the right bracha is shown, sometimes with a short reason. At the end there is a list of what is worth remembering.
• Every eight foods in the right basket take you up a level. The bar above the game shows how far the next level is.

The levels

• Levels 1 and 2: plain, everyday foods at an easy pace.
• Levels 3 and 4: foods that take a thought join in: nuts, green vegetables, pasta, grape juice.
• Levels 5 and 6: the foods that catch people out join in: banana, strawberry, rice, mushrooms, legumes.
• Levels 7 and 8: the baskets change places before every food.
• From level 9: foods for experts join in, such as quinoa, buckwheat, bulgur, mulberries and tofu, and the pace keeps rising.
• In every level half the foods come from the hardest group opened so far. At levels 4, 7, 10 and so on you get one life back.
• Once you have reached level 3, 5, 7 or 9 you can start your next game from it.

The game has fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, grains, snacks and other foods whose bracha is agreed on, as they are usually eaten. Foods with a well-known dispute, or whose bracha depends on how they are made, are left out: for example papaya, passion fruit, raspberries, blueberries, cornflakes, pizza and matzah. Bamba follows the majority of authorities (shehakol), though some say ha'adama. For any practical question, ask a rabbi.