Bubble Shooter

How to Play

• Fire bubbles at the wall. A bubble sticks where it touches, snapping into the grid.
• Three or more touching bubbles of the same colour pop, worth 10 points each.
• Bubbles no longer connected to the ceiling fall off, worth 20 points each.
• Every 7 shots in a row that don't pop anything, a new row pushes the wall down. If a bubble crosses the red line, the game is over. Clear the whole wall for a 500-point bonus.

Strategy and Tips

• Aim for bubbles that hold up big clusters: popping them drops everything underneath for double points.
• Use the side walls. A bank shot can reach a gap that's blocked from straight on.
• Check the next bubble before you shoot, and park a colour where it will be useful later.
• Watch the dots at the bottom left: they count down the shots until the wall moves down.

Controls

Point at a spot above the shooter and click or tap to fire there; the dotted line shows the path, including one bounce off the side wall. With a keyboard, aim with the left and right arrows (or A and D) and fire with Space, Enter, or the up arrow. The small bubble to the right shows your next colour.

Background

Bubble shooters trace back to Taito's Puzzle Bobble (Bust-a-Move) in 1994, which grew out of its Bubble Bobble characters. The aim-bank-match formula went on to become one of the most-played casual game styles on the web and on phones.