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Lives, running out of moves, and undos

When a life is used and when it is not, how lives come back, what the out-of-moves screen offers, the helping hand, the free daily try, and optional videos.

Checked against OutBrick 5.1.1 · October 8, 20263 min read

Lives

  • You can hold up to five lives (eight while you own the current Brick Pass). One comes back every 30 minutes, even while the game is closed.
  • Opening a board needs a life, but does not use one. A life is only used when you lose an attempt.
  • Winning never costs a life. Neither does leaving or restarting before your first move.
When a life is used
You…Life used?
Clear the boardNo
Run out of moves and give up (or close the out-of-moves screen)Yes
Restart or leave after a moveYes, the card tells you first
Restart or leave before your first moveNo
Play on with more movesNo: it is the same attempt
Reach a board where nothing can move, with moves leftNo
Lose on your free daily try or during unlimited livesNo

Out of moves

The Out of moves screen showing the goals still needed, a button for 5 more moves for 300 coins, a Watch button for 2 more moves, and Give up.
Out of moves: what you still need, and your choices.

When your moves run out before the goals are done, you see what is left and can choose:

Play on in this attemptCostYou get
First time300 coins+5 moves
Second time500 coins+5 moves and a Hint
Third time and after900 coins+5 moves and a UFO
  • Or watch an optional video: +2 moves, then +1 move, then a free UFO.
  • If you saved a +5 moves, use it here.
  • On a board you have tried several times, each play-on gives a little more: one extra move for every failed attempt after the third, up to +15.
  • Give up ends the attempt and uses a life. The note under the button tells you if it will also end a winning run.

Good to know

Nothing paid is offered before level 6. The prices reset with every new attempt.

Level failed, and trying again

After giving up you see Level failed, with how close you came (“So close!”, “Almost there!” or “Not this time”) and whether a life was used. Choose Try again, or Back to the map. From level 6 you can start the next try with a head start: a Rocket on the board and a free UFO, for 800 coins.

A helping hand

Stuck on one board? From your sixth attempt at it, the game gives you 3 extra moves before you start: “A helping hand: 3 extra moves this try”. Once a day per board.

Level failed: a sad friend, Almost there!, the goals still needed (3 sunshine and 3 wave bricks), a broken heart showing one life used, a blue Try again button, an optional offer, and Back to the map.
Level failed shows how close you came.

Out of lives

  • A free try: once a day, with no lives left, you may get a free try at a board. Win and you keep the life; lose and it costs nothing.
  • Wait: the screen counts down to your next life.
  • Refill: a full tank for 600 coins, a stored refill if you have one, or an optional video for one life.
  • Unlimited lives: 1 hour (900 coins), 3 hours (2,000) or 24 hours (6,000), or with real money in the Shop. Buying more while one runs adds time.

Tap the heart on the Journey header any time to see your lives and when the next one comes.

Out of Lives: 0 of 5 lives and a countdown to the next one, then unlimited lives for 1 hour, 3 hours or 24 hours, for coins or money, a Refill for 600 coins, Watch for a life, and OK. A note at the foot says a life is only lost when a board is lost, lives come back one every 30 minutes, and once a day an empty tank gets a free attempt.
Out of Lives: wait, refill, or keep playing.

Optional videos

OutBrick has no forced ads: no banners, no pop-up ads between boards. Videos only play when you choose one for a reward, and only videos watched to the end pay. There are eight kinds, capped at 39 a day in total, and the caps reset at midnight.

WhereRewardPer day
Out of lives1 life8
Out of undos2 undos8
Out of moves+2 moves, then +1, then a free UFO6
Win cardYour clear’s coins again (75 to 300)4
Brick WheelA second spin1
Gift balloonCoins or a free booster for 10 minutes2
Brick CinemaOne prize square per video6
Board startA Hint (not currently shown)4

Good to know

With Remove Ads or the current Brick Pass, the same rewards say Claim reward and pay at once, with no video, within the same daily limits.

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