Full Sweep
The stack rises every turn. The sweep is the only way down
Solo, in a pool4 min a roundPuzzleArcade
Three rows sit on the floor. Drag a line through three or more touching tiles of one colour to take them off — then a new row pushes up from the bottom. Clear less than a row's worth and the stack climbs; let it reach the top and the run is over. Filling all four colour meters arms a sweep that takes the whole board at once and reseeds it, which is both the biggest score in the game and your only way out of a stack that has got away from you. Everyone in the pool is dealt the identical rows.
How to play
Goal. Hold back a rising stack of tiles for as long as you can.
- Press a tile and drag through its neighbours — diagonals count — to trace a line of three or more in the same colour. Release to take them off. Drag back the way you came to undo the last tile.
- Every clear pushes a new row up from the bottom, so a line of three costs you more room than it gains and a long line buys you space.
- Each tile cleared charges the meter for its own colour, and charge stops once a meter is full — so hunt the colour you are short of.
- When all four meters are full, the Sweep button lights up. Press it (or S) and the entire board goes at once, and three fresh rows are laid down.
Scoring
- 10 for each tile in a line, plus 5 for every tile beyond three.
- A sweep pays 18 for every tile it takes — worth far more on a full board than an empty one, but a full board is one row from ending your run.
The run ends when the stack reaches the top, or when the four 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.
