Brick Buster
In Brick Buster you bounce the ball off your paddle to clear the bricks. Free, no install, no sign-up. The ball waits on your paddle until you are ready.
In Brick Buster you move the paddle, keep the ball in play, and knock out every brick. The ball speeds up as you go, so the last few bricks are always the hard part.
about 16.6 KB
Works offline after the first visit. No install, no sign-up.
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How to play Brick Buster
What you are trying to do
Clear every brick by bouncing the ball into them. Each brick is worth two points, and the round is over the moment the ball passes your paddle.
The ball waits for you
It sits on the paddle until you tap. This is deliberate — a ball that launches while you are still reading the screen is a lost round before you have started, which reads as the game being broken rather than hard.
How to move the paddle
Slide your finger anywhere on the board and the paddle follows; on a computer use the left and right arrow keys. The paddle never jumps, it only moves as fast as your finger or a key press.
Where you hit the ball matters
Hitting with the centre sends the ball almost straight up; hitting with an edge sends it off at a sharper angle. The edges are how you aim at the bricks you want, and working that out is most of the skill.
Some bricks take two hits
The top rows are tougher and need two hits, but they are worth more. If a brick does not disappear first time, that is why.
The ball speeds up, but only so far
Every brick makes the ball slightly faster up to a fixed maximum. Past that it stops accelerating — a ball that kept speeding up would become impossible to follow rather than difficult.
Brick Buster Tips and Strategy
Work the columns, not the rows
Clearing a whole column leaves a vertical gap the ball can travel through without meeting a brick, and that is worth more than shaving a row off the top. The tough rows sit at the top, so clearing them last also leaves them out of the ball's way until you need them gone. Plan upward through a column rather than sideways across a row.
Aim with the off-centre hit
Where the ball lands on your paddle decides the angle, and the speed it leaves at is fixed. A near-centre hit goes almost straight up and comes straight back down, which costs you a whole rally. A hit near the end sends it diagonally, so use the ends deliberately when you need the ball to work its way towards a particular column.
The speed never resets
Every brick broken raises the ball's speed by the same small step until a fixed ceiling, and there is no way to slow it down again. That makes the early game the only place where careful, centred hits are affordable. Once the ball is quick, the ends of the paddle are the only place with enough angle left to reach the awkward gaps.
Brick Buster — Frequently Asked Questions
How many lives do I get?
One. The round ends when the ball goes past the paddle. There are no extra lives to collect, so each round is short and can be restarted immediately.
Is there a time limit?
No clock. The only way a round ends is by losing the ball or clearing the board.
Where is my best score kept?
On this device only, in your browser. No account and nothing uploaded.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer and works offline after the first visit.