Brick Break

How to play

Goal. Clear the wall before it reaches the bottom, in forty shots.

• Drag to aim; a dotted line shows the start of the ball's path, including where it bounces off a wall. Let go, and every ball you have goes along that line one after another.
• Each ball takes a point of health off any brick it touches, and a brick with no health left is gone.
• When the last ball drops, the whole wall moves down one row and a new row appears at the top. Later rows are tougher.
• You start with three balls and gain one every shot.

Scoring

• 4 for every hit, 25 for every brick broken.
• Clearing the wall pays 3,000, plus 300 for every shot you did not need, plus 4 for every second left — so finishing is worth far more than surviving.

The run ends if a brick reaches the marked line, when your forty shots are gone, or when the two and a half minutes are up.

How a pool is decided

• Choose a stake — E5, E10 or E20 — and press Play. Your stake is taken then, and you play straight away. The game is played on our servers: they hold the deal and count your score, and your device shows you the game and sends your moves.
• The clock keeps running if you leave. A run you leave part-way ends when its time is up, with the score you had. You can come back to it while it is still running.
• Your score goes into a pool the moment your run ends: the oldest pool for that game and stake that still has room and that you are not already in — or a new one. You see the pool as soon as your score is in it.
• Everyone in a pool plays the identical deal, so the only difference between scores is how each person played it. You are never given a deal you have played before.
• A pool pays the moment it has 5 scores, from 5 different players. The highest score is first and receives 50% of the pot, second 30% and third 10%; the platform keeps 10%. If two scores are equal, whoever finished first ranks higher.
• A pool that does not have its 5 scores 6 hours after its first is cancelled, and every stake in it comes back in full.
• If our side lets you down — the game never opens on your device, or our server restarts in the middle of your run — your stake comes back in full.
• Where a game pays for time left on the clock, it pays only when you finish the game — never when you get stuck, bust or run out of moves.
• Practice is free, up to 10 times a day in each game: your own board, with nothing staked and nothing ranked.
• Winnings land in your Crazy8s wallet, and you can move them to your mobile money whenever you want.