Daily Star

The **Daily Star**, or Daily Challenge, is a separate section within Sling Kong. In this section, a player can play a set course while being timed instead of going as high up as possible. You can enter the section by launching your kong to the gap on the right side of the main screen.

## Courses

Every day, a new course will be available to play. These courses contain various Obstacles. Most of the time, a course will contain two or three main categories of these obstacles. The title of the track gives a decent indication about what kind of obstacles can be expected. There also are special obstacles made just for the Daily Star section as well as a special background.

A player does only have three attempts each day for free. These attempts are shown in the form of hearts on the right bottom of the screen. When a player fails, one of their hearts will turn grey. After every one of the hearts turned grey, the course cannot be played anymore. You can, however, get more hearts by either paying 25 coins or watch an advertisement. Completing the course does not cause any hearts to be removed.

There is no indication whether there is a definite number of tracks which are cycled around each day or whether the same track occurs more than once at all. A list of all the Daily Star courses can be found here.

## Time

By launching to the first peg, your timer will be started. The timer can only be stopped by completing the course or pausing the game. Upon failing, the timer will automatically reset. Your best time of the day will be visible together with the World Average (and Game Center friends(?)). By pressing the arrow next to the course title, you will find the World Best time, together with the difficulty and the amount of players that attempted the course that day.

After a quick calculation, the World Average time will become visible. Beating that time will reward you. The Kong that was used for the course will receive a Crown for their Hat Collection. If the Kong already had a Crown, the player will be rewarded with 25 or 50 coins instead. Even if the player does not beat the World Average time, they will still receive something for completing the course. After completing the course for the first time that day, a star will be handed to the player. By collecting a certain amount of stars, a big coin prize will be awarded, giving up to 500 coins for five stars.

If the Daily Star is collected, the arrows in the main menu are turned off, as well as the rainbow sparkles that can be seen before the Star is collected. The Daily Star resets every day at 4 a.m. UTC.

## Achievements

In the Achievements section, there is a separate tab for the Daily Star. There are five different achievements in this tab, of which four are progressive.

### Royalty

* Unlock a Daily Star Crown for any Kong
	+ Reward: 20 Game Center points + 100 Coins

### You're a Star!

* Earn 1 Star from a Daily Challenge
	+ Reward: 20 Game Center points + 50 Coins

### A week's worth

* Earn 5 Stars from Daily Challenges
	+ Reward: 25 Game Center points + 100 Coins

### A month's worth

* Earn 30 Stars from Daily Challenges
	+ Reward: 50 Game Center points + 250 Coins

### A galaxy's worth!

* Earn 100 Stars from Daily Challenges
	+ Reward: 100 Game Center points + 500 Coins

## Trivia

* There is no special reward for getting the World Best time at the end of the day.
* The starting peg is identical to the pegs at the bottom of the Prize Machine.
	+ The top peg looks similar to these pegs as well. However, this peg does not flicker, but stays on all the time.
* Entering the Daily Star section can only be done by launching a Kong to the right in the starting menu. Returning can be done in two ways: by launching the Kong back to the left or by pressing the 'Back' button in the left bottom corner.