Chain

How to play

Goal. Collect the number shown for each of three target colours before your 22 moves run out.

• Press a tile and drag through tiles of the same colour that touch it — diagonals count. Let go on a path of three or more to collect it; a shorter path costs nothing and is simply dropped.
• A path cannot go back through a tile it has already used, so the route you choose decides what is left behind.
• Tiles above a collected path fall down and new ones drop in from the top.

Scoring

• A path of three pays 30, and every tile beyond three adds 25.
• Completing a target colour pays 400.
• Meet all three targets and every move you did not need pays 75, and every second left adds 3.

The round lasts two and a half minutes. Every colour has its own shape as well, so the board reads without relying on colour.

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.