Head lice are no laughing matter, if you don't attempt to eradicate them as soon as you spot the first one then you'll have an infestation on your hands, at this point you might as well throw away your child* so here's your crash course!

A nymph louse will hatch from an egg around 1-2 weeks after it is laid, once it has hatched it will take around 8-9 days to become an adult louse.

As an adult, a louse will lay up to 10 eggs every 24 hours. When the louse has been alive for around a month it will die.

Adult lice are the easiest to spot, but lice are quick, so you'll have to perform fast strokes through he hair to catch them.

Eggs are lying in wait to hatch, but they latch onto the hair with a glue like substance, so perform slow strokes to catch eggs.

Picking up these critters is dirty work, so make sure you wipe any remains on some tissue or you risk putting any captured lice back into the hair.

Now! GO ERADICATE THOSE HEAD LICE!!

Apologies for the gross photo of my head, I can however guarantee there are no headlice in it! So it's not as gross as it could be.

I put Lice Hard together in Game Maker Studio using GIMP for art and Audacity for audio.

This is probably the most fun game I've ever made, it features GAMEPLAY, actual GAMEPLAY!!

All controls are carried out with the left mouse button.

It is purposefully tricky to spot the eggs and lice, as with real-life headlice (gotta have some realism in the game).