First, where your hands want the line: blocks fall with no line drawn
and no sound, and you tap where your thumbs already are. Then a click track works out
how late your taps land, so the song can shift to meet them. Both of those move
where the line is for you — how big the Perfect zone is never changes, so it
means the same thing on every phone. Then you try it and choose whether to keep it.
Nothing is saved until you say so.
Every finished run goes on the board for that song, so you can see how
you compare with everyone else playing. It sends the name and face the game made up
for you and the score — nothing else, no account, and nothing that says who you are.
Tap a song to see where you stand before you play it.
Little pops and chimes as you play — a tap, a caught star, a
streak catching fire. They are mixed to sit under the music rather than fight
it, so they start on; slide it to nothing if you would rather just have the
song.
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Counting starts after a few beats.
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How to play
Tiles fall. Tap each one before it reaches the bottom.
TapHit the block itself, not the track. The nearer
its base is to the line, the better.
HoldA long tile. Press and keep your finger down
until it has gone by. It brightens as you hold it.
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SlideArrows mean swipe. Press it, then drag
sideways the way they point. A dashed outline shows how far — the tile
lights up as you get there.
Two at onceTiles that glow pink come in pairs,
on the song's big accents. Use two fingers — one each.
RunA gold edge and a joined-up chain mean a
burst of quick taps. Get ready before it arrives.
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Gold starGrab it for extra points and a bigger
multiplier for a few seconds — even past the usual ceiling. Missing one costs
you nothing at all: no combo lost, no run ended.
Every song wears a badge for how fast it plays — a snail is
gentle, a bolt is steady, a flame is fierce. Normal on a fierce song is
honest work, so the chips under the search box let you pick the kind you fancy.
There are two modes, picked under the difficulty on the home screen.
In Survival one miss ends the run — tapping an empty lane counts too — but a long
streak banks a continue that saves you once. In Points you always reach the
end, there are no continues, and a long streak pushes your multiplier past ×4 all the way
to ×6. Each mode keeps its own high scores.
Your streak and what it is worth sit together in the middle of the screen:
the count, and the × multiplier it has earned. Catching a gold star lifts that
multiplier for a few seconds — the badge turns gold while it lasts. Break the streak and
you watch both of them fall off the screen. Get to 25 in a row and you are
on fire: the tiles start glowing and embers come down the screen.
Letting go of a hold early, or not swiping a slide, only ever breaks your
combo. Fill the three stars by playing accurately.
There are three of them and then two more rungs above. Play a song almost
flawlessly and your three stars turn platinum. Play one with every single tap
Perfect and you get the crown. Both are kept once you have them.
Tap the + on a song card to add it to your playlist, at the
top of the screen. The first one is where you start; you can move songs up and down,
take one out, and each song plays straight on from the results card. A room works the
same way — the host builds the playlist and after a couple of rounds a league table
shows who is winning overall.
Tap when the base of the block reaches the line. The bottom
edge of every block is lit for exactly that reason — it is the edge that gets judged,
not the block. The glowing band either side of the line is the Perfect zone:
anywhere in it counts as Perfect, and the nearer the line you land the more the block
is worth, so the line is the one to aim at.
In settings, Calibrate plays a short level with nothing to lose
and just watches you tap along. Where your taps land moves the whole song to match your
speakers, so the beat arrives exactly as a block touches the line, and it moves the
line itself up to where your thumbs already sit. It never changes the size of
the Perfect zone: that is the same for everybody, so a league table is comparing the
same thing on every phone.
Tap your name to pick a face — 48 of them, or one of the music
symbols the other games use.
Tap a song and you get your best on it, your stars, and where that puts
you against everyone else playing — then Play. The results card shows the same
board again once your run has changed it. Boards are per song, per difficulty and per
mode.
Hit 25 in a row and you are on fire — the tiles start to glow. Keep it
up and they burn brighter.
Install SYNC
It runs full screen with no browser bar, and needs no signal once a song has loaded.
Android — tap ⋮ in Chrome, then Add to Home screen.
iPhone or iPad — tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Already have an older version on the home screen? Remove that one first —
the browser will not offer to install the same site twice.
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SUSSA hidden-role party word game. Everyone gets the same secret word — except the assassin.
SWAPA bright match-and-merge puzzle. Swap sparks, set off cascades, chase the combo.