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Brick Blitz: why linked glass bricks fall differently
In Brick Blitz, bricks hold on to their neighbours. How cluster gravity, row clears that change links, the four modes and the campaign crowns work.
Brick Blitz looks like a falling-brick puzzle until the first row clears. Then the pile above shifts in ways you did not expect — because the bricks are linked. It is set in a night gallery of obsidian, copper and stained glass. Play it in your browser or on Android.
Links and clusters
Each falling piece is a 4×4 arrangement of glass bricks, and every brick carries a link type that decides which neighbours it holds on to. Linked glass moves as one cluster.
After a piece settles, gravity is worked out cluster by cluster: a cluster drops only if every brick in it can drop. That is why a single supported corner can hold a whole span of glass in the air above an open column.
Clears change the board
Clearing a full row in the 10×20 case sends the change outward: the links on the rows above and below mutate. Clusters break apart or join, and the stack reshapes itself while you watch. Clear again during that settle and the combo builds. Simultaneous clears pay 100, 250, 450, 700 and 1000 points.
Tools
- Hold, a next preview and rotation are always available.
- Smart placement suggestions highlight landings the game judges sound; tap another highlight to page through options, and tap the highlighted one again to place. A landing is only offered if the piece can actually get there.
- Swipes, an on-screen pad and hardware keys all work.
Four modes, one physics
- Campaign — five chapters of ten stages, each graded for up to three crowns. One crown unlocks the next stage.
- Endless — runs until the spawn is blocked and raises the level every sixty seconds.
- Time Attack — a ninety-second scoring sprint.
- Zen — no clock at all, for practising links.
Casual, Classic and Expert adjust drop speed, hint strength, targets and the score multiplier.
Reading the glass
- Before you drop a piece, look at what it will be linked to, not only where it lands.
- A cluster resting on one corner is a hidden risk — and an opportunity if you clear the row under it.
- Use Zen to watch how mutations change a stack before trying it under a timer.
More on the Brick Blitz page, or open the gallery.
