Arctic Shores tasks / Balloon
Arctic Shores Balloon practice
Blow up balloons for an office party: each pump adds 5p, bank it any time, but a burst balloon pays nothing.
One full free game, then a Arctic Shores pass ($4.99 for 30 days, paid once) for unlimited practice. Built from Arctic Shores' candidate help pages and the account of a candidate who took the real assessment three times (PwC, KPMG and HSBC apprenticeships), checked against what other practice sites report. No recording of the real test is public; screens and wording are ours.
How Balloon works
- Press Space to pump. Each pump adds 5p to that balloon. Bank it to keep the money and move to the next balloon.
- Pump too far and the balloon bursts: that balloon's money is gone.
- Balloons come in three shapes that burst sooner or later on average. Reports say 45, or 50 to 60 balloons; practice uses 45.
- There is no time limit.
Time and scoring
About 5 minutes, untimed. Arctic Shores does not publish how tasks are scored and says there is no right way to approach them. Practice shows the raw measures a task like this records, so you can see how you play; it is not your real result.
Tips
- Use the first few balloons of each shape to learn when it tends to burst, then adjust.
- The candidate who took it found most balloons survived about five pumps and banked a couple of small ones after a burst.
- Do not mash the key. Steady, deliberate pumping reads better than random clicking, by candidates' accounts.
Questions
Is it the same as the pymetrics Balloons game?
Similar idea, different set-up: here there are three balloon shapes and the money is in pence. Our pymetrics version follows that test's own details.
How many pumps is safe?
Not public. In our practice the wide balloons burst soonest and the long ones last longest.