Playing calmly

#There is never a clock

No board in OutBrick is timed, and nothing counts down while you think. Each board gives you a number of moves, and that is the only limit. A move only counts when it does something: a swap that makes no match springs back without using one, and a drag of less than half a cell springs back too.

• You can stare at a board for as long as you like. Put the phone down, come back, carry on.
• If no move is possible, the board reshuffles for free. You can never be truly stuck.
• Every attempt comes with a free Hint, Rocket and UFO, and the first Undo on each board is free.

#A gentler screen

Obmedzenie pohybu

In the iPhone Settings › Accessibility › Motion. Idle movement on the board stops, glows hold still, hints shimmer in place, screens cross-fade instead of sliding, and every win celebration turns to a soft glow.

Dim Flashing Lights

Also under Motion. Full-screen flashes from big combos drop to a third of their strength and never come closer together than about a third of a second.

Animation speed

In OutBrick Settings › Accessibility: 50%, 75%, 100%, 150% or 200%. At 75% or 50%, swaps, falls and clears play more slowly and are easier to follow.

Calm Glow and Calm Outline

Two free pieces in the Wardrobe: Calm Glow under Celebrations (a soft glow, nothing flying) and Calm Outline under Swap trails (a still outline where a brick was). Tap Wear it.

More in Vision, hearing and motion.

#Sound, music and haptics

• Sounds, Music and Haptics each have their own switch in Settings › Game, and the same three are in the Pause menu, so you can change them in the middle of a board.
• Haptics are the small taps you feel as pieces move and land. The switch only appears on devices that can vibrate.
• The friends talk in text bubbles, never aloud, and nothing in the game depends on hearing. Playing in silence loses nothing.
• The Ring/Silent switch and the volume buttons work as usual.

#A quieter game

Game features

Settings › Game › Game features switches off Friend Rescue, Village Race, Brick Royale, Crew Race and Offers on the map. Nothing you have earned is lost.

Quick play

On from the start: a win goes straight to the next board. Turn it off in Settings › Game and a win takes you back to the Journey map instead, a natural place to pause.

Show me on the standings board

Turn it off if you would rather not appear on the Leaders tab.

Mascot AI chatter

Where Apple’s on-device model is available, the friends make up their own lines. Turn it off for their usual ones.

#Notifications, the icon badge and Focus filters

• OutBrick sends at most one notification every 20 hours, and never between 22:00 and 09:00. Each offers Play, Later (three hours) or Tomorrow.
• Turn them all off with Settings › Game › Notifications in the game, or choose their style in the iPhone Settings › Notifications › OutBrick.
• The icon badge counts rewards waiting for you, up to nine. Opening the game clears it without claiming anything. To hide it for good, turn off Badges in Settings › Notifications › OutBrick.

A Focus filter for OutBrick

1. 1In the iPhone Settings › Focus, choose a Focus, such as Sleep or Personal.
2. 2Tap Add Filter, then OutBrick.
3. 3Choose what OutBrick does while that Focus is on: turn the music off (or music and sounds), pause reminders, and hide the icon badge.

#Stepping away without losing anything

• Between boards is the perfect place to stop. On Home or the map, nothing is in progress.
• In the middle of a board, tap Pause. Resume brings you straight back.
• Leaving before your first move is always free. After a move, the Leave? card tells you a life will be used before you choose.
• Lives refill on their own, one every 30 minutes, even while the game is closed. Tap the heart on the Journey to see when the next one comes.
• Your day streak can wait. A streak of three days or more can be restored within a week of a missed day, free with a streak saver or for 250 coins.
• Your progress is safe. It is saved as you go, on the device and in iCloud.

#Habits for unhurried play

• Look before you move. Find the gates and the goals first. The order panel at the top tells you what the board wants.
• Use the free Hint. It is there on every attempt and cannot be saved, so using it costs nothing.
• Undo freely, once. The first undo on every board is free.
• Replay a cleared board from the map when you want something familiar. Replaying never moves your place on the Journey.
• Choose a stopping point before you start, such as the end of a village, and let the village celebration be your cue.
• If a board frustrates you, leave it for today. Lives refill, the helping hand arrives, and boards often look different after a rest.

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