Spinning Plates — free browser game

Spinning Plates is a real-time attention-management game inspired by the circus-juggler acrobatics of spinning multiple plates on poles. The stage starts with 5 plates spinning on top of 5 poles; beneath each plate is a green energy bar that, as time passes, drains through full (green) → warning (yellow) → danger (red) colours. An emptied plate falls off its pole and the game ends — so you must keep them all spinning without letting any drop to zero. To give a plate energy, click it, tap it, or press the number written beneath the plate (1-9) on the keyboard; the plate flashes, speeds up and resumes spinning at full power. As energy drops the pole begins to wobble visibly — a red bar plus a big wobble is the sign of an emergency. Your score is ten times the number of seconds you survive; every 14 seconds a new plate is added to the stage (up to a maximum of 9), and as the game goes on energy drains faster, so both the number of plates you have to manage at once and the tempo increase. Strategy: rather than clicking the lowest-energy one last and doing short-rotation maintenance on the medium-energy plates sprinkled in between, always watch the reddest one and rescue it first — 'topping up' a full one counts as a wasted move because it can't push the energy past its ceiling. Once the 9th plate arrives, keeping going is nearly impossible; your real score depends on how cleanly you played up to that point. The R key resets the stage, and Space or Enter starts a new round.