Lines Premium: Slide pastel balls, line up five of a colour

Progress follows a storybook journey instead of a plain list of numbers. Sixty-four stops wind through eight regions — Meadow Trail, Candy Coast, Lantern Valley, Cloud Harbor, Starfruit Ridge, Bubble Falls, Moonlit Orchard and Aurora Peak. Every stop carries a name of its own, from quiet ponds and sugar piers to lantern keepers and the friendly characters who close each region. The stop you have just opened pulses on the winding trail, so you always see where the road continues, and the Prev and Next arrows let you look ahead at the regions still waiting.

The goal panel keeps changing shape. One stop asks for a gold quota, the next wants a fixed number of balls in a single colour, then several lines of five, then a stretched line of six or more, then a combo streak where clears must follow one another without a dry move in between. Deeper into the journey the board starts pushing back: blocked cells cut your routes in half, move limits reward economical thinking, incoming balls stop showing their preview, the palette widens toward seven colours, and some stops count only lines of six.

The heads-up display stays honest about what matters: the goal chip and its progress, gold earned so far, moves left when a stop limits them, and the live combo counter. Short hints above the board name the twist of a stop before your first move, whether that is a colour to chase, a route squeezed by blocked cells, or a preview you will have to do without.

Losing a stop costs nothing but a moment. The result card offers another attempt straight away, and a second run usually unfolds differently because the balls spawn in a new pattern. The board is small enough that one well-placed ball can set off two clears at once, and those double pops are what carry the combo goals.

Everything is drawn on a single canvas that fills the screen, in portrait and in landscape, on a phone, a tablet, or a desktop window you resize while playing. Nothing is letterboxed and no screen asks you to rotate the device. Controls stay simple: tap or click a ball, then tap or click the destination; drag to scroll the level trail, the rules page, or the score list.

Eight interface languages are included — English, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Hindi and French — and each one covers menus, goals, hints and stop names. A gentle music loop and light interface sounds sit on separate switches, remembered on the device, so a silent session is one tap away.

Puzzles run entirely offline, with no account and no sign-in. Unlocked progress and your personal record stay on the device. If you feel like comparing gold with other players, set a short nickname of up to fifteen characters and your score can travel to the online board whenever a connection is available.

Lines Premium suits a five-minute break and a long quiet evening equally well: early stops are gentle enough to learn by playing, while the late regions ask for real route planning. Art, audio and level design are original work made for this release, with no affiliation to any other puzzle series.

Features

Cute pastel hub with candy bubbles
Journey map — 8 stages × 8 named stops
Classic 9×9 path moves and line clears
Splash Start unlocks fairy mashup BGM
Sound controls, How to play, Leaderboard

Tips

Every move without a clear brings new balls, so place each ball where it starts or extends a line, not just out of the way.
Diagonals count too: a ball near the centre can serve a row, a column and two diagonals.
On stops without a preview, keep a couple of open corridors so new arrivals cannot cut your routes.

What's new

Version 1.0.25 refreshes Lines Premium marketing from the shipped pastel route Canvas. Store and site visitors will notice: • Icon, hero, spotlight, and eight gameplay screenshots regenerated from live compose on :9000. • Listing still explains the 9×9 board, path moves, five-or-more clears on rows/columns/diagonals, sixty-four storybook stops across eight regions, and eight languages. Gameplay loop is unchanged: plan clean routes, burst matching colours, and travel the storybook map without rushing.