The Couch
Threat ■■■■■
How it attacks. "Just one more episode." It's 9:40 on a Saturday and you're still in sweatpants.
How the hero wins. Jump it. The Loop lands Tuesday with your weekend already planned.
A Lancaster Loop game
Sieggy Takes a Loop
Free to play. Hard to beat.
Sieggy is on a mission to find every great thing to do in Lancaster County. Help him off the couch, past the algorithm and around the county to Paradise.
DOOMSCROLLED
Return to your couch.
Sieggy made it to Home · 0 points
Space or ↑ or tap to jump. Hold for a higher jump.
↓ or swipe down to duck. P pauses. M mutes.
It speeds up the longer you last. Your best on this device: 0
High-score contest
Top score wins a $100 gift card to Cabalar Meat Co.
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Ends Monday, Nov 9 at 6:00 pm ET
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Presented by Growth-ish™
Presented by
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The loop starts in Lancaster City and winds through all 102 boroughs, townships and villages of Lancaster County, from Columbia to Blue Ball to Bird-in-Hand. The goal is Paradise. Make it there and the loop starts over at the same speed, so your score keeps climbing as long as you last. Watch the town ticker under the road to see how far Sieggy gets.
Top 10 This week's contest
Every player. Every device. Make the Top 10 and sign it with your name. Loop subscribers only.
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Level 1
Know Your Enemy
Three things keep you on the couch. Four more are waiting once you're out the door.
The Smartphone (aka the Algorithm)
Threat ■■■■■
How it attacks. Forty minutes gone. You know about three celebrity breakups and zero events in Lititz. It buried your favorite brewery's post under a mattress ad.
How the hero wins. Jump it. One email with every good thing in the county. The Loop doesn't run on an algorithm. It runs on Ed.
The FOMO Storm
Threat ■■■■□
How it attacks. Monday morning. Everyone's photos from the thing you didn't know about. It rolls in low and it's way too big to jump.
How the hero wins. Duck. Get low, let it pass over you, and next time, you were there.
Out in the county
Road Apples
Threat ■■□□□
How it attacks. Left behind on every back road in the county. The fresh ones are the worst.
How the hero wins. Hop it. A quick little jump clears it.
Horse and Buggy
Threat ■■■■□
How it attacks. Big, steady and the full width of the lane. Sooner or later you'll be behind one on Route 340.
How the hero wins. Hold jump for extra air and clear the whole rig. Then give a friendly wave.
The Trash Truck
Threat ■■■■■
How it attacks. Sieggy's real-life nemesis. It rumbles in head-on, faster than anything else on the road. (School buses are a close second.)
How the hero wins. Hold jump for big air and sail over it. Don't look back.
Turkey Vultures
Threat ■■■■□
How it attacks. One glides low over the fields or way up high. Then a whole kettle shows up, three stacked and circling at head height.
How the hero wins. Jump the low ones. Run under the high ones. When three come stacked, duck.
Level 2
Meet the Hero
No couch. No algorithm. No fear (except trash trucks).
Siegfried Farnon
In game: Sieggy · Formerly known as Dexter
- Class
- Hind-Leg Explorer
- Ear Radar
- Treat Motivation
- Sister Devotion
- Hop Height
- Courage
- (trash trucks exist)
- Breed
- Unknown. Mostly love.
- Weakness
- Trash trucks. School buses. Being told "maybe later."
His story
Left by the road
Dumped by his owner. A passerby saw it, stepped in, and got him to Charlie's Crusaders.
Fostered in Lancaster
A local foster family took him in while he waited for a home.
Found online
We spotted "Dexter" on his listing, then met him at his foster's house. 14 pounds, six months old, already knew sit and down.
Named Siegfried Farnon
After the big-hearted vet in All Creatures Great and Small, our family's favorite show.
Case file: unsolved
The Great Breed Mystery
Dachshund? Chihuahua? Corgi? A little something else? Nobody knows, and we're happy to keep it that way. The most important part of Sieggy isn't his breed. It's the love he brings to our family, and to every neighbor he meets.
Adopt a pet. They're the best breed. Meet the pups at Charlie's Crusaders
Level 3
Equip the Hero
Sieggy only needs one piece of gear. So do you.
The Map
The Lancaster Loop
Every great thing to do in Lancaster County, in your inbox every Tuesday at 7:17 am.
Join 15,500+ neighbors who'd rather be out than scrolling.
It's not just a newsletter. It's neighbors meeting neighbors.
- The Dinner Club. Strangers sit down together and leave as neighbors.
- Unplugged Night. A whole evening with the phones put away. The doom scroll's natural enemy.
- LancoHunts. The county, turned into a scavenger hunt.
- Loop events. Meetups, giveaways and good causes, announced first to Loopers.
Bonus Level
Cheat Codes
Keep Sieggy (and yourself) at full health.
- Open Tuesday's Loop. It lands at 7:17 am with the week already planned, so you never miss another event.
- Find Where's Wal'Ed'o? Spot Ed in the wild for bragging rights, and sometimes prizes.
- Enter the free giveaways. Loopers win tickets, gift cards and local goodies, just for reading.
- Pull up a chair. The Dinner Club seats strangers together. They leave as neighbors.
- Put the phone down. Unplugged Night is a whole evening with no scrolling, only people.
- Give together. The Looper FUNd pools small gifts from readers into real support for local nonprofits.
- Hunt it down. LancoHunts turns the county into a scavenger hunt.
Side Quest
Find Your Own Sieggy
Sieggy came home through Charlie's Crusaders Pet Rescue, a Lancaster rescue that places dogs with foster families until they find their forever homes. There are more pups like him waiting for a home, and fosters help them get there.
Contest rules
Sieggy Takes a Loop High Score Contest: Official Rules. No purchase necessary. Subscribing to the Lancaster Loop is free. A purchase will not improve your score or your chances of winning.
Who can enter: people 18 or older who subscribe to the Lancaster Loop. You don't have to live in Lancaster County. Ed Hanko and his household, and employees of Growth-ish and Cabalar Meat Co., are not eligible. Void where prohibited.
Dates: the contest opens Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and ends at 6:00 pm Eastern Time on Monday, November 9, 2026.
How to win: play at play.lancloop.com, make the Top 10, and sign your score with the email address you use for the Lancaster Loop. The highest verified score on the contest leaderboard at the deadline wins. If scores tie, the earliest score wins. The Lancaster Loop may disqualify any score that comes from cheating, scripts or tampering.
Prize: one $100 gift card to Cabalar Meat Co. in Lancaster, PA. No cash substitute.
Winner: contacted at the email used to sign the leaderboard and announced in the Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Lancaster Loop. If the winner does not reply within 7 days, the next-highest verified score wins.
Presented by: Growth-ish™. Run by: the Lancaster Loop, Lancaster, PA. Questions? Reply to any Lancaster Loop email.