How to play
Brick Breaker
Bounce the ball off your bat and smash every brick. Three lives.
At a glance
- Players
- 1–2 at once
- Ages
- 6 and up
- Round
- About thirty seconds
- In the packs
- Party, Big Kids
Controls
This one uses the stick and the big button, nothing else.
| What you press | What it does |
|---|---|
| Stick | move the bat |
| Button 1 — the big button | launch the ball |
How a round goes
No clock. The ball starts resting on the bat; press to launch it. The bat is a bat, not a mirror: where the ball lands across its face decides the angle. Dead centre goes straight up, and the further out you meet it the steeper it leaves, so you steer the ball by sliding under it. A flick as it arrives drags the ball with it.
Clear the wall of sixty bricks and a new, faster one is built. Lose the ball off the bottom and it costs a life; three lives and the game is over. With two players each has a bat, either can hit the one shared ball, and the lives are shared too.
Scoring and winning
One point per brick, ten for clearing a wall. Alone, your total goes to the leaderboard. Two players are a team: one ball, one wall, nobody beats anybody, and the card shows the pair's score.
The one game capped at two players.
Tips
- Meet the ball off-centre on purpose to aim it at the corner you want.
- The top two rows ring like metal and the rest crack like wood, so you can hear where the ball is.