Fortune Rabbit Pipeiro It's July, school's out, and the sky over the morro is full of pipas. Climb onto the laje and fly yours.
Hold the screen to pull the line and your pipa climbs where its nose points. Drag sideways to steer. Let go to give line and it dives.
Fortune Rabbit Pipeiro To cut a rival, cross their line steeply and give line. A flat crossing barely cuts, and if you hold on while they give line, they cut you instead. Diving into a cut is also how you end up in the power lines, so pick your moment.
Each afternoon lasts two minutes and you get three pipas. Gusts flip the wind, birds knock you into a spin, and the wires over the rooftops are always waiting.
The wind comes from the real current weather in Rio, São Paulo, Salvador, Recife, Belo Horizonte or Porto Alegre, so every day flies a little differently.
Cuts unlock new shapes, each with its own handling: the capucheta turns fast but drifts, the raia climbs well but turns lazily, the peixinho dives and saws best. In the workshop you design the paper yourself, and you can take its colours from a photo of your own street.
Fortune Rabbit Pipeiro The logbook keeps every afternoon: the city, the wind, your score and the pipa you flew.
Fly a pipa from the laje and cut rival kites with angle and timing.