★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A group of frogs is called an army.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Dolphins have names for each other.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★An octopus has nine brains.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The moon has moonquakes.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A group of frogs is called an army.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Dolphins have names for each other.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★An octopus has nine brains.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The moon has moonquakes.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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Break every brick to clear the layout. 6 levels, falling power-ups, 3 lives.

How to play Brick

Move your cyan paddle left and right to bounce the amber ball into the rainbow bricks above. Each brick you hit gives you points and the ball bounces away. Clear every brick to advance to the next level: the layout changes from a classic rainbow grid to a pyramid, diamond, zigzag, heart and arrow shape, and after the last layout it loops back faster. Some broken bricks drop a falling letter tile. Catch them with your paddle to grab the buff: 3 splits the ball into three, W makes your paddle wider for ten seconds, L gives an extra life and S slows the action down for eight seconds. You start with three lives and lose one each time the last ball falls below the paddle. Use the arrow keys, A and D, or drag your finger on mobile.

Tips

Aim with the edge of your paddle, the angle of impact decides where the ball goes
Try to break a tunnel through one column, once the ball is above the bricks it scores by itself
Catch the W tile for a wider paddle and the 3 tile to triple your balls, much easier to clear a layout
Each level the ball is a little quicker and the layout changes, so build muscle memory on the early ones

About Brick

Brick is a colorful take on Atari's Breakout, originally designed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976. The genre exploded with Taito's Arkanoid in the eighties and has powered countless ball-and-paddle games since. Our version keeps the classic feel: paddle, ball, rows of bricks. The bricks are now a full rainbow, the level changes shape every clear and falling letter tiles bring Arkanoid-style power-ups into the mix. Free, no install, no ads in the play area.

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