The twelve kinds of board

#1 · Send Them Home

A board where nothing falls, about two thirds full, with gates in the goal colours. The goals are “Send or match” two colours, or three later in the Journey.

Find a brick of a goal colour with a clear lane to its gate and carry it in. When a lane is blocked, clear the bricks in the way by matching them, or slide them aside.

First met

Level 1.

A goal colour can also be matched anywhere: three in a line count as three, without a gate.

#2 · Slide and Match

Nothing falls. Two colours to Collect with lines, and one to send home.

Slide a brick next to two of its colour to make a line, or swap two neighbours. Each line clears its cells for good, so every match opens space for the next slide.

First met

Level 2.

A slide can travel any distance and stops where you let go, which makes lines a swap could never reach.

#3 · Open Garden

A bigger board (8×8 at first) where nothing falls: send two colours home and collect a third.

Plan a few moves ahead. Every brick you clear leaves room to slide, so clearing the bricks between a goal brick and its gate is often better than the nearest match.

First met

Level 3.

#4 · Falling Garden

The same goals as Open Garden, but bricks fall and new ones drop in from the top.

Work low on the board: matches near the bottom move everything above them and set up cascades. Slide sideways into gaps, or straight down into a gate in the floor.

First met

Level 4.

The collect goal here grows along the Journey; cascades do much of the work for you.

#5 · Pots and Ice

Nothing falls. One-layer crates, bricks in ice and an iced gate, usually in a third colour. Goals: send three colours home and break some crates.

Break crates and ice with lines beside them. Send any brick home early: every brick that leaves through a gate thaws the iced gate a little.

First met

Level 5. Explained in Every blocker, lid and gate.

#6 · Long Bricks

Long bricks (1×2 and 2×1, later 1×3 and 3×1) in the goal colours, each with a gate somewhere wide enough to take it. Goals: send two colours home, and each long brick counts every cell.

Line a long brick up with a gate that spans it and make sure the cells behind it are free. Long bricks are never swapped or blasted, so clear their lanes with lines of single bricks.

First met

Level 6.

#7 · Corner Pieces

L and T bricks (later some long ones) and a few singles, in just the two goal colours, on a board where bricks fall but no new ones arrive. One colour’s gate stands low on the left, the other’s low on the right, and the floor is lined with gates three wide in the two colours by turns.

Every brick that settles lands over or beside a gate, so think about the order: send the piece that frees the most room first.

First met

Level 7.

#8 · Crates and Ice

More crates (two layers from Clover Farm on) and bricks in ice. Goals: break crates, where every layer counts, and send one colour home.

Put lines next to crates, especially lines that touch two at once. A bomb’s double blast is ideal for two-layer crates.

First met

Level 8.

#9 · Locks and Moss

Bricks fall. Locked bricks and moss, and the only kind where moss spreads. Goals: undo every lock, clear some moss and send one colour home.

Free locks with lines through them; clear moss with lines beside it. Clear a little moss whenever you can, before it creeps further.

First met

Level 9.

#10 · Stone Lanes

Statues stand in short columns across the board, with one long brick and, later on, a few crates. Goals: send two colours home and collect a third.

Read the lanes before moving: statues never break, so bring bricks round by the open rows. A line blaster’s blast passes over statues.

First met

Level 10.

#11 · The Big Day

The village finale, where bricks fall: long and big bricks, crates (two layers later on), ice, and later locks; an iced gate in the first goal colour, a counted gate in the second, and often a sealed bed, a clock lid over two floor cells in a corner. Goals: send two colours home and break crates.

Start the thaw early by sending any brick home, save the counted gate’s room for the bricks that can only leave by a gate, and let the sealed bed open by itself while you work elsewhere.

First met

Level 11.

Perlu diketahui

Level 2000, the end of the Journey, is a Big Day at night.

#12 · Quiet Puzzle

A smaller board (8×6 at first) with a few big bricks (2×2, 1×2 and 2×1, later 1×3, 3×1, L and T) and some singles, in the two goal colours only. Bricks fall but no new ones arrive, and the gates are set like Corner Pieces’: low on each side and right along the floor.

Take your time. Nothing new arrives, so every move changes the board for good. Work out which piece is blocking which, then send them home in that order.

First met

Level 12.