Rise
Puzzle · 200 coins to play · free in your browser
A falling-block puzzle with a deadline built into the floor. Rows of garbage push up from underneath on their own clock, so clearing lines is not about tidiness but about buying back the room the floor keeps taking. The pressure ramps: early on a new row arrives every eight seconds, and after three minutes of survival it is every five.
Is this your next game?
For falling-block fans who want pressure from below as well as above. The rising floor makes a low, accessible stack more useful than a tall scoring setup.
Choose a cabinet in the arcade →How to play
- Drag left and right to move, tap to rotate.
- Flick down or tap the bar to hard drop.
- Rows rise from below — clear lines faster than the floor climbs.
Mouse and keyboard
- Left and Right — move the piece.
- Up — rotate.
- Down — soft drop, for one row of nudge.
- Space — hard drop, which slams the piece down and locks it immediately.
Controls on a touchscreen
- Drag left or right to move the piece.
- Tap to rotate.
- Flick down, or tap the hard-drop bar under the board, to slam it.
Scoring
- Hard-dropping pays 2 points per cell the piece falls, so committing early to a placement is worth points.
- Clearing lines scores against your current level, which rises with both lines cleared and time survived.
- Surviving a garbage rise pays a bonus of its own.
Combos and multipliers
No score multiplier, but the level does the same job: it climbs with both lines cleared and time survived, and line clears are scored against it. Surviving longer is worth more per line even if you clear at the same rate.
How a run ends
Being crushed. That happens when a rise has nowhere to put a new row because the stack already reaches the top, or when a piece has no room to spawn.
Worth knowing
- A resting piece has a 400 ms grace window before it locks, which is enough time to slide or spin it out of a mistake.
- Some pieces carry items. DRILL bores out the bottom row, BOMB clears a blast radius, and FREEZE pushes the next garbage rise back — a real reprieve rather than a cosmetic one.
- A three-second countdown and a telegraph warn you before every rise, so a crush is always something you could see coming.
Your first run
- Keep a route into the lowest holes. Check the rise countdown before committing a piece that seals them.
- Use the landing preview to decide, then hard drop. Save small slide or rotation corrections for the brief lock delay instead of relying on it for every placement.
A mistake to avoid
Waiting for one perfect piece while garbage pushes the whole stack toward the ceiling. A modest clear now can buy the space your next piece needs.
Worked example
A hard drop travelling six cells adds 12 raw points before any line-clear score. That small reward does not make a bad placement safe; the next garbage rise still needs room.
Examples describe in-game points or resources. Wallet rewards are calculated separately after submission.
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Entry, rewards and fair play
Sign in to play. A run costs 200 coins. You need the full fee: with a lower balance, the run does not start and no coins are charged. Claim an available daily bonus before trying again. Your score can earn coins back and is validated by the server before ranking. How the economy and verification work →
Rise is in the daily rotation: 3 of the 16 games in the rotation pool carry a ranked board and a share of the community prize pool each day, drawn from the calendar date. This pool includes legacy BlockDrop and differs from the public catalog. On its day this cabinet wears a gold star.
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