Block Puzzle
Fill a row and watch it vanish
How to play
Block Puzzle is a free online block puzzle in the style of 1010! and Block Blast: place candy-coloured pieces on an 8x8 grid and clear full rows and columns. It runs in any browser on phone or desktop and inside Telegram via @MatsuriGamesBot, with no download. Everyone shares the same pieces on the daily board, and a run can be sent to a friend to play the identical sequence.
Drag the candy pieces from the tray onto the 8×8 board. Fill a whole row or column and it clears; clear several at once, or keep clearing move after move, for a bigger combo. The run ends when none of your pieces fits. Play the daily to get the same pieces in the same order as everyone else, or send a friend your run so they face the exact same pieces.
- Drag a piece from the tray onto the board (or press 1–3, move with the arrow keys, Enter to drop).
- Fill a whole row or column and it clears; clear several at once, or back to back, for more points.
- When none of your pieces fits anymore, the run is over.
How to play Block Puzzle
The board is an empty 8x8 grid with a tray of three pieces below it. The pieces can be placed in any order, but they cannot be rotated: each shape arrives in a fixed orientation. Once all three are on the board, three new ones arrive. The run ends as soon as none of the pieces left in the tray fits anywhere. Shapes range from a single block and bars of two to five through 2x2 and 3x3 squares to L, T and S/Z shapes; big, awkward ones come less often.
Every block placed scores 1 point. Filling a row or column clears it, and a row and a column completed by the same piece count as two lines. A clear pays 10 for one line, 30 for two, 60 for three, 100 for four and so on, multiplied by the streak: the number of placements in a row that each cleared something, up to x8. A placement that clears nothing resets the streak. Leaving the board completely empty adds 300.
Block Puzzle strategy and tips
- Keep room for the big shapes. The 3x3 square, the large 3x3 corner L and the five-long bars need the most space, and most runs end waiting for one of them, so keep at least one open area that could take any of them.
- Plan the whole tray before placing anything. Try the three pieces in different orders in your head: place the awkward piece while space exists, and the piece that completes a line last, so its clear makes room for what comes next.
- The streak multiplies the line bonus, so long streaks are where big scores come from. Keep a line or two nearly full as a reserve that a small piece can finish on the next placement and keep the streak alive.
- Look for crossing clears. A piece that completes a row and a column at once is a two-line clear worth 30 times the streak, and it opens space in two directions at the same time.
- Fill edges and corners first and keep the middle open. Pieces fit much more easily into an open centre than into scattered gaps, and lone one-cell holes are the hardest thing on the board to fill.
Modes and difficulty
The daily board changes at 00:00 UTC and deals everyone the same pieces in the same order; only the first daily try counts on the leaderboard. Practice gives a fresh sequence every game, with no limit. A friend challenge sends your exact piece sequence with your score as the target. There are no levels: one board, played until no piece fits, or handed in early.
Playing Block Puzzle on Matsuri
Each piece depends only on the day's seed and its place in the sequence, never on the board, so a daily leaderboard here really compares planning. Block Puzzle is also in the weekly Matsuri Cup rotation, where your best practice score of the week counts toward candy and a cup badge. The server replays every placement to check the score. On a computer it plays from the keyboard too: 1 to 3 picks a piece, the arrows move it, Enter drops it.
A little history
Clearing full lines goes back to Tetris, created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, but the drop-anywhere block puzzle took off with 1010!, released by Gram Games in 2014: no gravity, no timer, just a grid, a few pieces and the question of where they fit. Block Blast and many similar games later built on the same rules, with rows and columns both clearing.
In the same series: Match and pop
- Sweet Match: Swap one candy and watch the combos pop
- Bubble Pop: Bank off the wall, pop three of a colour
- Color Lines: Line up five of a colour and watch them pop
- Candy Sort: Pour and pour till each jar holds one colour
Update log
- · Easier on your battery: a board you are not touching draws half as often.
- · A plain tap on a tray piece no longer drops it on the board by accident.
- · For Halloween the Pumpkin Party look is free to wear until November 1.
- · Block Puzzle arrives: an 8x8 board, a tray of three, streak combos.
Questions
- Is Block Puzzle free to play online without downloading?
- Yes. It is free with no ads, no download and no signup, and it plays in any browser on phone or desktop and inside Telegram via @MatsuriGamesBot.
- Is the daily block puzzle the same for everyone?
- Yes. On the daily, everyone gets the same pieces in the same order, so the leaderboard compares planning, not luck. Scores are checked on the server by replaying your placements.
- Can I rotate the pieces?
- No. Pieces come already turned the way they are, as in most block puzzles of this kind, so part of the skill is keeping room for shapes in any orientation.
- How do combos and points work?
- Every block you place scores a point, and clearing rows or columns adds more, especially several at once. Clearing on consecutive moves multiplies the line bonus, and emptying the whole board gives an extra bonus.