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Tile Tumble

Tiles ride the conveyor and tumble toward your tray. Catch them, sort them into five bins and match three of a colour before a bin overflows. Combos, wild tiles and rising speed.

How to play

  • Left/Right move
  • Space/Z drop into bin
  • P pause
  • Enter or tap to start · M to mute

Touch controls appear automatically on phones and tablets. Your best score is saved in this browser and only reaches a leaderboard if you submit it (privacy). Press the fullscreen button for the full cabinet effect.

About this game

You steer Pip, a small sorting robot, under a conveyor belt, catching falling tiles on a tray that holds three. The tray works like a stack, so the last tile caught is the first one dropped, and choosing the bin is most of the puzzle.

Goal: Match three or more of one colour on top of a bin to clear tiles, finish each level's quota, and last until your three lives run out.

Tile Tumble is an original tile catch-and-match game built for the browser in the style of 1980s arcade cabinets: pixel art, a chiptune soundtrack and CRT scanlines, all generated in code. It is free, has no ads and needs no download or account.

What’s inside

  • One endless mode with a saved high score
  • New tiles by level: wild (2), fourth colour (3), bombs (4), fifth colour (5), gold (6)
  • An extra life every third level, up to 5
Players
1 player
On a phone
Tap or drag on a lane to move Pip, tap a bin to drop there, or use the arrow and Drop buttons; tap the top edge to pause.
Round length
A game usually lasts 4-10 minutes.

Tips

  • Clears made within 5 seconds of each other build a combo that multiplies the points for each clear.
  • A run of 4 or more is worth much more than 3 (60 points for three, 100 for four, 150 for five), so let a bin build up when it is safe.
  • Drop a bomb into your fullest bin: it clears every tile there for 30 points each, but it explodes on your tray if you hold it for about 7 seconds.

Questions

How do you lose a life in Tile Tumble?

You lose a life when a tile hits the rail below Pip or when a bin overflows past six tiles. You start with three lives.

What do wild tiles do in Tile Tumble?

A wild tile counts as any colour, so it can complete a run of three on top of any bin.

Leaderboards

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Scores are highest first. Your best is read from this browser when you submit; three initials, arcade style.

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