Brick Out
Brick Out is a paddle-and-ball brick breaker over 20 levels. You never touch the ball directly, so everything comes down to where on the paddle you catch it and which of the falling bonuses you choose to run under, because not all of them are on your side.
How to play Brick Out
- Move the paddle along the bottom with the mouse, or a finger on a touch screen, keeping it under the ball.
- Click or tap to launch, then catch the ball each time it comes down so it never falls past the bottom edge.
- Aim your bounces up into the blocks. Most break in one hit and the sturdier ones take a few, but the iron blocks never break at all and stay on the board as walls to bounce off.
- Ten kinds of bonus fall from broken blocks: a barrier, cannons, a cloned ball, a fireball, a faster ball, an extra life, extra score, extra time, a wider paddle, and a narrower one.
- Clear every breakable block to finish the level. Running out of time ends it instead, and you have three lives across the 20 levels.
Tips
- Catch the ball near the end of the paddle rather than the middle. The steeper angle is the only way to reach blocks tucked into a corner behind an iron block.
- Look at a bonus before you move under it. The one that narrows your paddle is the worst thing you can catch on a level you were about to finish.
- Treat the iron blocks as part of the table rather than as targets. Learning which way the ball comes off them is what lets you clear the blocks hiding behind them.
- Take the fireball to the thickest rows. It ploughs through a stack instead of bouncing off the first block it meets.
How many of the twenty levels can you clear on three lives?
