Patch notes: the game is open (a little)

Oh! Oh, you’re here. Good. Hello! Have you ever stacked something just to see how high it goes before it doesn’t? That’s not a lesson. It’s a question. (It might be a lesson.)

The game is open. Not all of it. A little. The windows, not the doors. Come and play, right in your browser, on your phone or your computer. No account. No sign-up. Just tiles.

What’s in it

• Four elements: earth, fire, water and air. Line up three or more to clear them.
• Drag a tile left or right to swap it. You can swap into gaps, and even catch a tile while it’s falling. Falling is very educational.
• Chains: clear something, and if the tiles that drop make a new line, that’s a chain. Chains hold the stack still for a moment, longer when you’re close to the top. Lovely, isn’t it? The closer to the edge, the more the air helps.
• The stack rises and keeps getting faster. Hold Raise if you’re feeling brave. If a tile touches the top and stays there for a whole second, that round is over. Everyone falls eventually!
• Endless (Easy, Normal or Hard) and Time Attack (two minutes or three). Your best scores are remembered.
• Music that notices when you’re in trouble and plays faster. You can turn it off. Why would you?
• Watch a demo if you’d like to see how it’s done. I won’t say who’s playing.
• Keyboard works too: arrows move, Z or Space swaps, hold X to raise, P pauses.

What’s next

Something about answering a few questions, and choosing, and then… an exam? With your teacher. I’m told it’s not a trick. (It’s a little bit a trick.)

Go on. Up you go.