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How do you play brick breaker?

In brick breaker you move a paddle along the bottom of the screen to bounce a ball into rows of bricks. Every broken brick scores points, and the level ends when all are gone. If the ball gets past the paddle, you lose one of three lives. Where the ball lands on the paddle sets the angle of the bounce.

How to play

1. Tap Start playing or tap the field. The ball sticks to the paddle for a moment and then launches by itself. A tap on the field releases it sooner.
2. Move the paddle by dragging your finger on the field or moving the mouse over it. On a keyboard, use the left and right arrow keys, or the A and D keys.
3. Bounce the ball upward. It rebounds off the walls, the ceiling and the bricks.
4. The contact point sets the angle: in the middle of the paddle the ball goes almost straight up, and near the ends it leaves at a steep slant toward that side.
5. A dim brick breaks with one hit. A brighter brick, with a dash in the middle, takes two or three hits and dims with each one.
6. Breaking a brick is worth 10 points for each hit it can take. A hit that does not break it is worth 5 points. Clearing the level is worth 100 points.
7. Some bricks drop a power-up, which falls slowly. Catch it with the paddle to use it.
8. If every ball gets past the paddle, you lose a life and the power-ups end. The game starts with three lives.
9. Broke every brick? The next level comes in, with a new layout and a slightly faster ball.
10. The first eight levels have fixed layouts. After them, each level is random, always with matching left and right sides.
11. The game ends when you run out of lives. Your high score is saved on this device.

Controls

• Keyboard: the left and right arrow keys, or A and D, move the paddle. The space bar or the up arrow launches the ball. The P key pauses.
• Touch: drag your finger on the field and the paddle follows it. A tap launches the ball.
• Mouse: move the mouse over the field to move the paddle and click to launch the ball.
• Game controller: left stick or D-pad to move the paddle, A or ✕ button to start and launch the ball, Start or Options to pause.

The power-ups that fall

• Wide paddle (green): the paddle gets bigger for 12 seconds.
• Extra ball (gold): one more ball comes into play. You only lose a life when all of them drop.
• Slow ball (violet): the balls move more slowly for 8 seconds.
• The thin bars at the top of the field show how much time is left for the wide paddle and the slow ball.

Tips to play better

• Use the ends of the paddle to aim. That is how you reach the last brick hiding in a corner.
• Open a path along one side until the ball gets above the rows. Up there it bounces between the ceiling and the bricks and breaks several at once.
• Watch the ball, not the power-up. Only go for a power-up if you have time to get back.
• With two or more balls, look after the lowest one. The others keep working by themselves.
• Caught the slow ball? Use the time to aim calmly at the toughest bricks.
• Bring the paddle back to the middle after each bounce. From the middle you can reach both sides.

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