Welcome to OutBrick: your first board

#What OutBrick is

OutBrick is a calm Slide & Match puzzle. Each board is a garden of toy bricks with coloured gates on its edges. Slide a brick into the gate of its own colour and it goes home, or swap two neighbours to make a line of three and clear them. Each board has goals to meet within a number of moves, and there is never a clock.

• 2,000 levels along the Journey, through 167 villages, each with its own look and twelve kinds of board.
• Nine brick friends (Bloo, Peach, Sprout, Moss, Bricko, Zippy, Vio, Flurry and Poppy) cheer you on in text bubbles.
• Free to play. Optional videos and purchases exist, but lives come back on their own and you never need to spend to keep playing.

#Your first board

From Home, tap the big green Level button. The first time you meet a new idea, a short teaching card shows it with a moving hand. Tap anywhere to start playing.

1. 1Slide: swipe a brick toward an empty space. It travels until you let go or it meets something. Carry it into the gate of its colour and it leaves the board.
2. 2Swap: swipe a brick into a neighbour. If that makes a line of three or more (or a 2×2 square), they clear. If not, the bricks spring back and no move is used.
3. 3Watch the goals in the panel at the top. Each tick means a goal is done.

#Reading the goals

The order panel at the top shows what this board wants and how many are left: bricks of a colour to send home or match, crates to break, locks to undo or moss to clear. Each goal wears the same colour-blind symbol as its bricks. Some boards come in two stages: finish the first goals and new gates open for the second.

Every part of the screen is explained in Playing a board.

#When you clear a board

• Any moves you have left turn into line blasters and go off, adding 150 points each. Tap to skip the show.
• You always earn at least one star for a clear; a higher score earns two or three.
• Next goes on to the next board; Home takes you back. With Quick play on (Settings › Game), a win goes straight to the next board.
• Winning never costs a life. Lives are only used when an attempt is lost. See Lives, moves and undos.

#Where to go next

• A tour of every menu, so you know what every button does.
• Special bricks, blockers and board kinds, the moment you meet something new.
• Accessibility and Playing with VoiceOver, if you want the game to fit you better.