Brick Slide

The pitch

Brick Slide is an engaging block falling puzzle game that tests your spatial logic. Slide colored brick pieces horizontally to fill empty gaps and clear entire horizontal lines. Keep the board clear as new rows push up from the bottom plan your chain reactions carefully to trigger massive score combos and set high records!

Controls & how it runs

Slide the Bricks Swipe or click-and-drag any brick horizontally to the left or right. Bricks fall automatically if there is empty space beneath them. Fill the Gaps Position falling blocks into empty slots to complete a solid, unbroken horizontal row. Clear Lines & Score A full row instantly clears, awarding points and lowering the board. Clear multiple rows with a single move to trigger combos for bonus points. Watch the Rising Board Every time you make a move that doesn't clear a line, a new row of bricks pushes up from the bottom. Avoid the Top Edge The game ends immediately if the brick stack reaches the very top row. Keep the board low to stay alive.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Brick Slide — quick-fire questions

Does Brick Slide cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Brick Slide?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Brick Slide on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Brick Slide is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.