Tap the game to open it fullscreen. On a computer, Esc exits; on a phone, use the ✕ button.

How to play

Tap fast (or hammer the space bar) to pull. When the monster thrashes, the screen warns and shakes: do not pull then. Tear off the arm before three slips.

The story behind it

In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, the hero tears off Grendel’s arm with his bare hands. The test of strength in the game is made up. Read the story in Beowulf and the hall of Heorot: the English poem set in Scandinavia and the monster Grendel.