Brick Breaker

Bounce the ball off your paddle to smash every brick, across 10 hand-made levels with power-ups to catch.

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Brick Breaker

Break every brick in 10 levels. Pick a speed, then play.

Speed

RelaxedNormalFast

Or press Enter

Move the paddle with the mouse or the arrow keys. Catch the letters that fall for power-ups.Drag anywhere on the field to move the paddle. Catch the letters that fall for power-ups.

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About Brick Breaker

Brick Breaker is a ball-and-paddle arcade game: a wall of bricks fills the top of the field, and you keep a bouncing ball in play with a paddle at the bottom. Every brick the ball hits takes damage, and the level is cleared when none are left.

There are 10 levels, each with its own pattern of bricks, from a simple warm-up wall to a fortress of tough bricks and steel. Power-ups drop from some broken bricks, and the ball speeds up as you go.

How to play Brick Breaker

Pick a speed: Relaxed (a slow ball that speeds up gently), Normal (the ball speeds up as bricks break) or Fast (a quick ball from the first serve).
The ball starts on your paddle. Click, tap or press Space to launch it.
Move the paddle under the ball to bounce it back up. Where the ball lands on the paddle sets its angle: the middle sends it straight up, the edges send it off steeply to that side.
If the ball falls past the paddle you lose a life. You start with 3 lives; the game ends when they run out.
Break every brick to clear a level. Clear all 10 to win.

Brick Breaker controls

Keyboard
Move the paddle	Mouse, or Left and Right arrows (or A and D)
Launch the ball	Click, Space or Up arrow
Pause and resume	P or Esc
Sound on or off	M

Touch screens
Move the paddle	Drag left or right anywhere on the field
Launch the ball	Tap the field
Pause	The pause button above the field

Brick Breaker rules

Bricks

Blue bricks break in one hit, orange bricks in two and red bricks in three; a tough brick changes colour and shows a crack as it weakens. Grey steel bricks never break: the ball just bounces off them, and a level is cleared without them.

Scoring

A blue brick is worth 10 points, an orange one 25 and a red one 40. Every brick you break before the ball comes back to the paddle adds a 5-point chain bonus, up to 45 extra.

Clearing a level is worth 250 points, and clearing the last one adds 100 for every life you have left. Your best score at each speed is kept in this browser.

Power-ups

Some broken bricks drop a letter. Catch it with the paddle to use it: W widens the paddle for 12 seconds, M splits the ball into three, S slows the ball for 10 seconds, and + gives an extra life (up to 5). Losing a life or clearing a level ends any power-up.

Speed

The ball gets a little faster with every brick you break, up to a limit set by the speed you chose, and each level starts slightly faster than the last.

Tips and strategy

Aim with the paddle edges. Hitting the ball off-centre sends it at an angle, which is the way to reach bricks at the sides.
Get the ball above the bricks. Once it is bouncing between the top wall and the bricks, it breaks several in a row and builds a chain bonus.
Do not chase every power-up. If catching a letter would mean missing the ball, let the letter go.
Use the pause button whenever you need a break. The game also pauses by itself when you switch tabs.