Breakout Rules
Controls
- ← / → or Mouse — move the paddle
- Space or Click — launch the ball / release from sticky paddle
- P — pause / resume
- Drag left or right to move your paddle
- Tap LAUNCH to launch the ball or release from a sticky paddle
Powerups
Break a glowing brick to drop a powerup. Catch it with your paddle to activate it.
Extra Ball — Spawns a second ball into play. Both balls must be lost before a life is deducted.
Wide Paddle — Expands your paddle for 15 seconds, making it easier to keep the ball in play.
Narrow Paddle — Shrinks your paddle for 15 seconds. Try to avoid it!
Sticky Paddle — The ball sticks to your paddle on contact. Reposition, then tap or release to shoot.
Cannon — Your paddle fires bullets upward for 10 seconds. Bullets destroy any brick they hit.
Fireball — The ball burns through bricks without bouncing for 5 seconds, clearing entire columns.
Extra Life — Grants one additional life, up to the maximum of 5.
Bricks
Gold — Takes 2 hits to destroy. Worth 15 points per hit. Shows a crack after the first hit.
Steel — Indestructible. The ball bounces off normally. Steel bricks are cleared automatically when the level is completed.
Bomb — One hit destroys it and triggers a chain explosion that takes out all 8 neighbouring bricks simultaneously, including steel bricks.
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About Breakout
Breakout is a classic arcade brick-breaker game. Control your paddle to bounce the ball and smash all the bricks to clear each level. Don't let the ball fall past your paddle!
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