Brick Breaker

A classic brick breaker game: bounce the ball off your paddle and break every brick at the top of the field. There are 15 stages, and you can play in the browser with a mouse, a keyboard or touch.

How to use

1. Click the field or press Space to start. On a phone, tap the field.
2. Move the paddle with the mouse or the ← → (A, D) keys, and launch the ball with a click, Space or ↑. On touch, drag a finger left and right and lift it to launch.
3. Broken bricks sometimes drop an item; catch it with the paddle to get its effect. When every breakable brick is gone, the next stage begins.
4. Press P or Esc to pause, and "Start over" to begin again from stage 1.

How it works

• Coloured bricks break with one hit and black bricks with a yellow stripe need two. Grey plates cannot be broken and are not needed to clear a stage.
• There are four items: "Long paddle" (15 seconds), "Three balls", "Slow ball" (10 seconds) and "Pierce" (8 seconds). With several balls, you lose a life only when the last one is gone.
• You have 3 lives, and the ball gets a little faster with each stage. The game pauses when you switch tabs, and your best score is saved on this device only.

Questions and answers

How do I control the direction of the ball?

A ball that hits the middle of the paddle goes almost straight up; the nearer the edge it lands, the more sideways it bounces, up to 60° from vertical.

How do I score points?

A one-hit brick gives 10 points. A two-hit brick gives 5 for the first hit and 20 when it breaks. Catching an item gives 25, and clearing a stage gives 100 × the stage number.

What happens after the last stage?

When all 15 stages are cleared, the game ends and shows your final score. Press "Play again" to start from the beginning.