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Thanksgiving mini golf: Harvest Homestead
Every year in US Thanksgiving week, PUTTLE's free daily 3D mini-golf course sits down to the feast. From Monday to Sunday every world is dressed for it and each daily brings feast toys and ends on a set piece of its own, and on Thanksgiving Day itself the daily moves to Harvest Homestead, a family farm at harvest. Play it at https://puttle.golf in any modern browser. Everyone on that date gets the same five holes.
When to play
- Any day of the year: play a Harvest Homestead course now. That link opens a random practice course on the farm straight from this page, whatever the date, with the feast toys in it. It never touches your streak.
- 1 November to the end of Thanksgiving week: random Harvest Homestead courses are in the game's own practice picker, on the 🌍 World Tour sheet.
- All November: each daily you finish punches the November card — an Acorn ball at 5 punches, an Embers trail at 10, a Harvest Moon ball at 20 — and a daily played on Thanksgiving Day earns the Pumpkin Pie ball.
- Thanksgiving week, Monday to Sunday: every world is set for the feast, and each daily brings two of the feast toys, each in the place of a classic, hole 5 is the day's own set piece, and every ball wears a costume. In 2026 that is 23–29 November, dailies #176 to #182; in 2027, 22–28 November, #540 to #546.
- Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November: the daily is in Harvest Homestead, the same farm for every player. In 2026 that is Thursday 26 November, daily #179; in 2027 it is Thursday 25 November.
A finale for every day
Each day of the week has a theme, and on every day but Thanksgiving hole 5 is the day's own set piece, a par 5 built for it.
- 🛒 Monday, Grocery Run: Cleanup on Aisle 5 — past the pumpkin pile and into a stack of cans.
- 🍳 Tuesday, The Kitchen: Kitchen Rush — the potato masher, the lazy Susan, then the gravy river.
- 🎈 Wednesday, Parade Eve: The Big Parade — two parade crossings, with bumpers and pop-up posts between.
- 🦃 Thursday, Thanksgiving: the Turkey Trot — in Harvest Homestead, turkeys on holes 1, 3 and 5.
- 🥪 Friday, Leftovers: The Fridge Raid — a pumpkin roll out of the fridge, then a ring vault round the cup.
- 🏈 Saturday, Backyard Football: Hail Mary — tackling dummies, a line of pegs, and a goalkeeper to beat.
- 🧒 Sunday, The Kids' Table: bowling pins and the lazy Susan, then the world's boss.
Seven feast toys
- 🦃 Wild turkeys strut from rail to rail across the lane and stop at each rail for a look round. Go behind one as it sets off, or through the gap as two pass; one that meets the ball shoos it aside. On Thanksgiving Day they are on holes 1, 3 and 5, more of them each time — the Turkey Trot.
- 🥘 The gravy river is a ford of thick gravy that eats a putt's pace and carries a slow ball over the gravy falls (+1). Putt firm, or aim upstream and let it bring you back.
- 🎃 The pumpkin roll is a steep patch that giant pumpkins roll down, left, right and down the middle in turn. Climb with pace just after one has passed, on a line it isn't coming down.
- 🥔 The potato masher wobbles, then comes down into the mash. Go under it while it's up; a ball it lands on is mashed (+1).
- 🎉 The parade crossing starts with a drum roll, then a float rolls across the lane and back. Go when the drums stop, or squeeze in just after a float; a ball the float meets is swept up in the parade (+1).
- 🏈 Tackling dummies swing across the lane from a blocking sled. Time the putt to slip through as one swings away; one that meets the ball knocks it aside.
- 🍽️ The lazy Susan is the dinner table's turntable, the gravy boat in the middle. Ride the turn round one side, or fight it on the other.
Every obstacle in one place: PUTTLE hazards.
Harvest Homestead
A family farm on a crisp golden afternoon: turf gone gold at the edges, barn-red board fences with white braces for rails, maples and apple trees, hay bales, corn shocks and pumpkins, a big red barn and silo, a farm stand, and fields of stubble far below. Wild turkeys wander about, and the song is Hayride Hoedown, a barn dance on fiddle, harmonica and banjo. The rest of the year's worlds: PUTTLE worlds.
A game for after the meal
The rules don't change: stroke play against par, rolling off an island is +1, and gems never change your card. It's free, there's no account, and a round takes a few minutes. For a table of relatives, 👨👩👧 Play with your family in Practice passes one phone, tablet or computer round two to four players, fewest strokes wins; on separate devices, 🎉 Play with friends puts up to eight of you on one course at once. More: family mini golf and mini golf with friends. Halloween has its own week too: Haunted Hollow.
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