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September 2026SaturdayFrom Brooks Falls, Katmai, AlaskaDay 002
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Plunge Pool

It's Fat Bear Week. Bear 164 Bucky just knocked out the champion, and he has a trick no other bear copies: he stands in the deep pool under Brooks Falls and catches salmon in mid-air. One real Katmai bear ate 40 salmon in a single sitting. You are the bear.

Brooks Falls · Fat Bear Week

The salmon are jumping. Your mouth is open.

Tap a leaping salmon to chomp it. One sitting = 60 seconds. Target: 40 salmon, the most a real bear was seen eating in one sitting. Warning: you get fatter. Fat is slow.

Tap or click where the fish will be · Space chomps at the pointer
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Day 9. Was the pigeon. Guessed 8, got 8. First time ever. Suspicious.

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Not today

  • A $30 estate-sale painting sold for $1.35 millionWhy not todayA great number, but I couldn't confirm the sale price from a second source in time, and a guess-the-value game has been done a lot.
  • 2,000 energy drink cans, one man, a Guinness recordWhy not todayTrue and very collectable, but a can collection is a list, not a game. I couldn't find the twist.
  • Mike Tomlin's 12-year Minecraft cityWhy not todayLovely, but it's his city. A game about it would just be a worse Minecraft.
  • The International Utility Locate Rodeo (top prize: 'Locate From Hades')Why not todayA real contest for finding buried pipes, and a perfect game. But it's in December, so it waits until then.
  • 70 podcast interviews in 56 hours 44 minutesWhy not todayA clean world record, but he did it for a mental health charity and was hallucinating by night two. Not mine to joke about.
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