The Book
How to play: the dad digs by himself, and everything you do is in his collector's book.
Beepr plays itself. Every half a minute or so the detector beeps, the dad kneels, digs, and a find comes up out of the sand. It goes in your bag, and the first of each kind goes in his book. Tap the book in the corner to open it.
Finds
Every find in the place, what you have and what it sells for. Fill a page for its bonus.
Gear
His detector, headphones, spade and ride, and what the next level does.
Crates
Buy crates with $CASH, and open them onto a piece of gear.
Boosters
The boosters you have dug up. Turn one on at a time.
Digs
The flags waiting to be dug, the digs running, and the next storm.
Trade
Your $CASH, today's price and the leaderboard.
The first time you play, Rajesh, the support guy with the headset, walks you through the book once Dad has walked onto the beach: you click the book, a photo, Gear, a piece of gear, Crates, a crate, and shut the book yourself. Nothing can be bought, opened or sold while he does. Skip it at any beat, carry on where you left off after a reload, or take it again from the menu (Replay the tour).
The Loop
He detects around the clock, the game open or shut, for as long as your wallet holds the 50,000 $CASH it takes, so a week away is a week of finds waiting. Only his flags wait for you: they need a tap to dig, and the storms take the ones you leave.
Beep
The coil sweeps the sand until it finds a signal.
Dig
He kneels and digs it up. Sometimes a crate or a booster is in the hole too.
Too deep
About 1 signal in 12 is too deep to dig on the spot. He plants a flag instead.