Choco Blocks

Choco Blocks puts a deadline on the row-clearing game. You pick up sets of blocks and drop them onto the board to finish rows, as usual, but certain rows contain special chocolate blocks. Those are what you are really after. The goal is to collect all of the specified chocolate blocks from the board, and you have to manage it before time runs out.

That changes what matters on the board. Because the chocolate sits within the rows, the rows that hold it are the ones worth finishing first, and the timer means there is no room to wait indefinitely for an ideal set. The developer gives two ways to play: click and drag with a mouse, or tap and slide on a touch screen. The game is laid out in a portrait frame, taller than it is wide.

Click and drag a set of blocks into position with the mouse, or tap and slide it on a touch screen. Drop sets so that they complete rows. Watch for the chocolate blocks hidden in the rows and collect every one the game asks for. Get them all before the time limit expires.

The goal is the chocolate, not a high count of cleared rows, so give priority to the rows that contain chocolate blocks. The timer is the other pressure, which makes quick decisions about each set worthwhile once you can see where it should go.

A timed row-clearing block puzzle with collectable chocolate blocks, in a portrait frame. The developer lists mouse click-and-drag and, on touch devices, tap-and-slide. Winning means collecting every specified chocolate block before time is up.

Block It! also has you dropping sets of blocks to clear lines, ten blocks long, and Ocean Blast: Block Puzzle offers an endless Classic mode beside a 100-level Adventure on an 8x8 grid.