🫧 Bubble Shooter

How to play

The top of the board holds five rows of coloured bubbles, and the shooter at the bottom holds the next one to fire. Aim, click, and the bubble flies until it touches the ceiling or another bubble, then snaps into the nearest free space. If it joins a group of three or more of the same colour, the whole group pops. Clear every bubble to win.

• Mouse movement — aims the shooter. A dashed line shows the direction you are firing in.
• Click — fires the bubble. Only one can be in flight at a time, and clicks in the strip beside the shooter are ignored.
• New Game button — refills the top five rows with a fresh random layout and resets the counters.

Scoring

Popping a group scores 10 points per bubble removed, so a group of three is worth 30 and a group of six is worth 60. A shot that lands without making a group of three scores nothing but still adds one to the Shots counter, which tracks how efficiently you are playing rather than limiting you. Clearing the board ends the game with a win; if a bubble has nowhere left to snap into, the board is declared full and the game is over.

Tips

• Bubbles bounce off the left and right walls, so a bank shot reaches the corners that a straight line cannot.
• The bubble sitting in the shooter is the colour you are about to fire. Check it before aiming rather than after.
• Look for pairs of the same colour already touching. Every one of those is a three-group waiting for one bubble.
• Bubbles left hanging after a pop stay where they are, so clear from underneath rather than expecting the rest to fall.

Frequently asked questions