Block Burst
Block Burst is a colour matching puzzle. A grid of coloured blocks, thirty moves, and the job is to squeeze as many points as you can out of them.
The one thing you have to understand before you start is this: a block only clears if there is a block of the same colour touching it. Tap a block that has no matching neighbour and nothing happens at all. Your score comes from how many blocks you take out in one go, so the size of the group is what matters.
Press Start to begin. When the thirty moves are gone, Play again resets the board with a fresh set of colours.
How Block Burst works
The board is a grid of coloured blocks. Tapping any block clears it along with every block of the same colour connected to it, up, down, left or right.
A group of one block does nothing. You need at least two connected blocks for a clear to register.
Scoring is squared, so a group of five is worth twenty five points while five separate pairs are worth only twenty. Cleared blocks are replaced with new random colours.
You have thirty moves. The run ends when they are used up.
Controls
Click or tap any block.
Press Start to begin and Play again to reset the board.
Tips
Look before you tap. That sounds obvious, but on a phone it is easy to hit the block next to the one you meant, and on a grid this small that changes what you clear. Take the extra second.
Check what is touching a block before you clear it. A group of two is a wasted move most of the time. Scan around it and see whether waiting one turn lets the same colour join up into something bigger.
Thirty moves sounds tight but it is enough. You can play a proper game inside that limit without feeling rushed, so use the moves on good clears instead of tapping quickly.
Notes from playing it
I did not like this one at first. The opening board felt dull and I was tapping without really understanding what I was doing.
That changed once I worked out how the clearing actually works. After a few rounds it started to feel like a real game, and by the end I was looking at the whole grid before every tap instead of just hitting whatever was nearest.
Compared to Lane Dodge this one is slower and works your brain more. Lane Dodge is pure reaction. Block Burst is the opposite, it is all about looking ahead. I would call it decent rather than great, but it holds up better the longer you play it, which is more than I expected after the first round.
My score was 1250 across the thirty moves. I have no idea yet whether that is good, since there is nothing to compare it against, but it gives you a number to beat.