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AN ADVENTURE IN EIGHT LIGHTS

The Legend of Hanukkah Hippo

THE EIGHT NIGHTS

✦ NIGHTS ONE–FOUR · FIRST LIGHTSA small light in a great darkness
THE EIGHT NIGHTS

Choose your adventure

Three adventures · saved on this device

Find Judah by the well. Take his mallet, then head east twice.

ONE FLAME CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Asmodeus stole the eight flames. Bubbe kept the shamash burning. Now your hippo hero carries it east, into the Olive Groves.

Move Arrows / WASD   Hammer / talk Z / Space
Use item X   Change item C   Inventory Enter

Four-chapter preview · Saves automatically on this device.
Visit Bubbe’s stove to heal. At full hearts, your hammer flies.

About the first four nights

The first four chapters of Benjamin Newman’s game design: Judea, the Olive Groves, Frying Flats, Hippo Marsh and Gelt Hills. Explore the Oil Press, Latke Furnace, Sunken Mikveh and Gelt Mines. Recover the Dreidel, Jelly Bombs, Snorkel and Strength Band, and restore four flames. Nights Five–Eight and the Temple are planned chapters.