Linez help page

Touch a colored tile to select it, then touch an empty space on the board to move it there. Form lines of 5 or more blocks of the same color to score points. Straight and diagonal lines both work. If you didn't clear a line with your move, 3 new tiles will be randomly scattered across the board. Once you cannot make a move anymore, the game is over.

Tiles can only travel across empty (grey) parts of the board. Unreachable tiles are colored dark red.

Every time you manage to make a line of 5 or more tiles of the same color, they are cleared from the playing field and you will get the following score:

score = ((N - 2.5)^2) / 2 + 6.875

where N is the total number of tiles cleared.

This means:

• 5 tiles = 10 points
• 6 tiles = 13 points
• 7 tiles = 17 points
• 8 tiles = 22 points
• ... and so on ...

You can score more points by making longer lines or by making more than one line with a single carefully placed tile. Tiles cannot count twice or more for your score: if a tile is part of two lines it will only be counted once to determine the score.

Note that the three random blocks you get after a non-scoring move can also clear lines from the board, but this does not give you any points!

Years ago I was playing the original Linez Training Camp on varten.net (now varten.com with a more 3D-ish look and feel), and got hooked for a while. Then I wanted to play it on my tablet, and instead of downloading an existing app I thought it would be more fun to create one myself.

In alphabetical order: Jasper, Jeroen, Johan, Klaas, Peter -- thanks for your comments and beta-testing the app.

Sound effects were downloaded from freesound.org. The following sounds were used:

• Bycycle rattle.mp3 (faruku)
• pop.aif (Eelke)
• glass-ping-variations (Eelke)

Get inspired too and have a look at varten.com.

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