🧱 Brick Breaker

How to play

A paddle sits at the bottom of the canvas below a wall of 60 bricks in six rows of ten. Press Start and the ball launches upward; slide the paddle to keep bouncing it back into the wall. Clear every brick and the level goes up, a fresh wall appears and the ball resets.

• Mouse over the canvas — the paddle follows your pointer, clamped so it never leaves the playfield.
• Start button — begins a game. It reads Restart afterwards and resets score, lives and level.

Scoring

Each brick pays 10 points times the current level, so a brick is worth 10 on level 1 and 20 on level 2. The top three rows break on one hit; the bottom three take two, darkening after the first. You have 3 lives and lose one every time the ball falls past the paddle. At zero lives the game ends and the final score is shown.

Tips

• The impact point adds sideways speed, so hit near an edge to steer the ball and near the middle to send it straight up.
• A long rally leaves the ball moving very fast sideways. Catch it centrally now and then to calm it down.
• Open a gap up one side and let the ball run above the wall — it clears several bricks unattended.
• Points scale with level, so surviving deeper is worth more than clearing slowly with lives in hand.

Frequently asked questions