Stack Up
A good alternate title for this one would be Rows – not the kind you have when
your wife finds lipstick on your shirt collar, but as an equivalent of
Columns. The gameplay is essentially the same – groups of 3 variably-colored
blocks fall towards the bottom of a 6×18 grid, and you must arrange them into
groups of 3 of the same colour – except that the blocks are grouped
horizontally rather than vertically.
Each individual brick falls as far as it can when you place the trio, so they
won’t necessarily all end up on the same line. Blocks fall as far as possible
to fill gaps when lines are completed, so there are never gaps in the
arrangement the way you get in Tetris. Each level sets you a target number of
lines to form – 4 or 5 in a row count as 2 and 3 lines respectively for this
calculation, a la Klax. Horizontal lines score the least, with diagonals the
most lucrative and vertical in between (this change from Columns makes sense
considering the different building method).
Stack Up