1 More Swing looks simple — one button, a rope, and a string of anchors — but the scoreboard rewards players who understand momentum, the multiplier curve, and exactly when to bank. This guide breaks down everything that separates a 2,000-point run from a 200,000-point one.
Every run is the same rhythm: grab an anchor, pump the swing, release at the right moment, and reach the next anchor. Each anchor you clear adds to your multiplier, and your multiplier decides how much every future point is worth. The catch is that those points are pending — they only become real when you land on a green BANK pad. Fall before you bank, and the whole pending pile vanishes. The entire game is the tension between growing that pile and locking it in.
The pump is the single most important mechanical skill. Holding the button while you swing feeds energy into the rope exactly like kicking your legs on a playground swing — and just like a real swing, timing matters far more than effort.
Your multiplier climbs with every anchor you clear in a chain and resets to ×1 the moment you bank. This creates a clean risk curve: a long unbanked chain is worth exponentially more than several short banked ones, but every extra anchor is another chance to fall and lose it all.
This is the decision that wins or loses runs. A useful rule of thumb:
You don't have to grab every anchor. Build up momentum, fly clean past several anchors in a single launch, and still catch a grapple on the far side — the more anchors you skip in one jump, the larger the multiplier jump and the bigger the bonus. Skips are the fastest way to inflate a score, but they're also the easiest way to overshoot into empty air. Practice them in Free Play before you bet a daily run on them.
Fall below the danger line and the run is over. Keep your launches flat and forward rather than high and floaty — height feels safe but eats your forward momentum, leaving you short of the next anchor. A confident, low chain that keeps moving is almost always safer than a series of desperate high lobs.
In the Daily Challenge, everyone plays the same fixed route, and your score rewards two things: how much you bank and how fast you reach the FINISH line. Because the route is identical for everyone, it's a pure test of skill — and that changes the optimal strategy:
Free Play is an endless, randomly generated run with no finish line. It's the best place to practice pump timing and skips with nothing on the line, and it's where most players farm coins. Coins come from banking, so a patient, bank-often style earns more per minute than a boom-or-bust style — even though boom-or-bust posts higher single scores. Spend coins in the shop on trails, orbs and colour themes; they're purely cosmetic and never affect your score or the leaderboard.