Word Bricks

Clear the wall before it reaches the line

Word Bricks gives you a cartoon castle wall made of colourful bricks, and every brick carries a word. The wall lowers a row at a time, and you break it apart by typing. It looks like a puzzle game, but your fingers do the aiming, so every smart choice about which brick to clear first has to be typed out.

How to play Word Bricks

Type the word on the lowest brick on the left side to break it. The game picks that brick automatically, so you do not need to click anything. Wrong letters are counted as mistakes and flash, but they never block you; keep typing the word. Press Esc to pause. When the bottom brick breaks, everything above it drops down under gravity.

Gravity and chain reactions

Bricks come in several colours. After bricks fall, if two bricks of the same colour land next to each other, they blow up together in a chain, and the bonus points add up if the explosion sets off more pairs. Watching the colours as you clear the bottom of the wall can turn a normal round into a high score. The wall steadily lowers by one row at a time. If it touches the bottom line the game ends, and if you stop typing the wall will reach the line by itself.

Skills you will build

• Typing whole words accurately.
• Planning which brick to clear to make colours match.
• Reading ahead while finishing the current word.
• Keeping a calm rhythm under steady pressure.

For teachers and parents

Word Bricks lets students practise a vocabulary list in a lively way. Ask them to find chains, then talk about why they work. Strategy and spelling both get a workout. Use the typing test to track speed over a few weeks.

More brain-teasers await in the puzzle typing games collection, and you will find every title among our typing games. For another puzzle that mixes thinking and typing, try Type Tower.

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