That Mosquito! Guide: How to Catch It and Finally Sleep

That Mosquito! is about one small problem at three in the morning. You want to sleep and something is in the room. This guide covers how sleep works, when to slap, how to find it with the light on, and what to do in the harder nights.

Sleep is the score

Each night runs from 11 PM until the alarm. Your goal is the number of hours marked on the bar at the top of the screen. You only gain sleep with your eyes closed, and they close when you stop touching the screen for a moment.

Three things slow your sleep down:

• A mosquito close to your ear keeps you half awake.
• Bites itch, and itching costs sleep. Tap a bite to scratch it.
• Slapping yourself and turning the light on leave you alert, and that fades slowly.

So every move has a price. Sometimes the best thing to do with a mosquito across the room is nothing.

When the whine stops

This is the heart of the game. A mosquito only lands in silence, so when the sound cuts out, it is on you. A dashed ring shows where it touched down.

Do not slap yet. For the first moment it is ready to leave, and a slap only leaves a red hand print on your own arm. Wait for the ring to turn red and for the small slurping sound. Now the needle is in and it cannot escape.

You do not want to wait too long either. When it finishes you get a bite, and a full mosquito flies off. If you kill one after it has drunk, you will see what it took from you.

If it lands on your cheek, the edge of the screen on that side lights up. Tap that edge. It will hurt, and your ears will ring for a moment, which means you cannot hear the others.

Use headphones

The whine is real 3D sound. With headphones you can tell left from right and close from far, even with your eyes closed. Without them, small letters at the edge of the screen show you where it is. If you want the hard version, you can turn those off in Settings.

The light

Turn the light on and every mosquito in the room hides at once. You sit up, and now you are looking for a small dark shape on a wall, a curtain, the calendar or a shirt.

• Drag to look around, and use ZOOM or the mouse wheel to look closer.
• Tap to throw your sandal. A wild throw sends it to a new hiding place.
• It will not stay still for long. The longer you search, the more likely it is to move.
• You do not sleep while the light is on, so give yourself a few seconds and then turn it off.

The moment the light goes off, they come back.

The electric racket

From the third night you own an electric racket. Tap the air in the direction of the sound to swing it. It can hit a mosquito in flight, and it works with your eyes closed if your ears are good. Each swing costs a charge, so do not wave it around.

The harder nights

• Hùng Snores: you can only hear the whine in the gaps between snores. Mosquitoes may land on Hùng instead of you, which is good news. Do not slap him.
• Power Cut: you have a phone torch with a small circle of light and a battery that runs out.
• Grandma’s Net: you are inside the net with it. There are fewer places to hide, but it is always close.
• Little Bo: a tap on the baby only shoos the mosquito away. If you are too slow, he wakes up screaming and so do you.
• Rain: the rain hides the sound almost completely. Watch the rings and keep your hands ready.

Spot It!

Every day there is one room with five hidden mosquitoes, and everyone gets the same one. Your time is the score, and a wild throw adds two seconds. When you finish you get a six-character code, so a friend can try the same hiding places.

Cô Bảy’s Shop

Each night earns a little money. Green Oil stops the itch, fresh batteries give the racket more swings, a coil slows them down, a bigger sandal forgives bad aim, and the short blanket covers one shin. It is always the other one that gets bitten.