BLOCK PARTY

THE OBJECTIVE

Drag pieces from the tray onto the 8 × 8 floor. Fill a row or a column and it clears. Clear again and again to build a streak, place quickly for a tempo bonus, and wipe the whole board for a jackpot. Trays are dealt to fit, so plan ahead. Every fifth level the Glitch spreads across the floor until you clear lines through it.

HOW TO SCORE

• Drag a piece from the tray onto the 8 × 8 floor and let go to place it, or pick one with 1, 2, 3 (or the arrows on the deck), move it with the arrow keys and place it with Space or Enter. On a touch screen you can also tap the floor to move the piece there and tap again to place it.
• Fill a whole row or column and it clears; rows and columns clear together. Clears pay more for every extra line at once, and clearing on placement after placement builds a streak multiplier (up to ×20) that ends after three placements without a clear. Placing within two seconds of the last piece adds a tempo bonus.
• Each tray holds three pieces. Pieces never rotate. Before a tray is dealt, the dealer checks that all three can be placed in some order (on a crowded floor it gives up after six tries), so plan where each one goes. The run ends when no piece left in the tray fits. Gold pieces double any clear they are part of, and emptying the whole floor pays a jackpot.
• Each level is a number of lines. Every fifth level the Glitch corrupts cells of the floor: they count as filled, and every four placements without clearing a line through one the Glitch spreads to a neighbour. Clear lines through every Glitch cell to purge it and move on.

CONTROLS

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1 2 3 pick a piece · arrows move it · Space or Enter place

Drag a piece from the tray onto the floor and let go to place it.

P / Escape pauses the game. Switching tabs pauses automatically. Rounds start, and resume, after a 3-2-1 countdown.

The daily starting seed resets at 00:00 UTC. Pausing stops the game; End & save on the pause screen banks an endless run. Ranked rounds must finish saving within 2 hours of starting.