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Well Blocks

Arcade · Phone & PC · 20 languages · Free

Falling four-block stacking with hold, ghost piece and a five-piece preview. Play Marathon or the 40-line Sprint, or solve 30 puzzle wells that must be cleared exactly with a fixed set of pieces.

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How to play

Well Blocks: Choose a level
1Choose a level
Well Blocks: In play
2In play

Controls

TapDragHoldKeyboard←→↑↓ Space X C
  1. Drag on the well to slide the piece, tap to rotate, swipe down to drop it.
  2. Fill a whole row to clear it.
  3. Buttons below: hold (or undo in puzzles), move, rotate, soft drop and hard drop.
  4. Keys: arrows, Up/X/Z rotate, Space drop, C hold.

About the game

Well Blocks is a falling-block stacking game built around four-cell pieces in seven shapes. Pieces drop into a ten-wide well; slide and rotate each one before it lands, and complete a whole row to clear it. Clearing several rows at once scores far more than one at a time, and four in a single drop is the big one. A ghost outline shows exactly where the piece will land, the next five pieces are always visible, and you can hold one piece in reserve to swap in later. Pieces come in shuffled sets of seven, so a long wait for the piece you need never lasts too long.

There are three ways to play. Marathon speeds up every ten lines and runs until the well overflows; chase a high score. Sprint asks you to clear forty lines as fast as you can, with stars for beating the clock. The twist is Puzzle mode: thirty handmade wells, each half-filled with grey blocks and paired with a short, fixed list of pieces. There is no gravity and no hold, only

Free to play in your browser. No download, no sign-up. Works on phones, tablets and computers. Your progress is saved on this device.

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