JELLIX: Block Puzzle

Now with 1v1 duels over Game Center: five seconds a move, or two minutes for the highest score. Plus 99 handcrafted levels and your own photos on the board.

Drop jelly blocks onto an 8×8 board. Fill a row or a column and it bursts. That is the whole rule — and then you spend weeks learning how much room you actually have.

Play alone and nothing runs out. No timer, no lives, no waiting. Classic ends only when nothing you are holding still fits, which means every game you lose is a game you talked yourself into.

Or play someone else, and let the clock do the arguing.

FOUR WAYS TO PLAY

CLASSIC — Endless. Three pieces at a time, one board, your own high score to beat. Clear several lines at once and the streak multiplier turns a tidy board into a very large number.

ADVENTURE — 99 hand-built levels across nine chapters, from Meadow to Starforge. Every level has its own board shape, its own goal, and its own twist: a tray that holds two pieces instead of three, rotation switched off, pieces that are all enormous, pieces that are all tiny. No two levels ask the same question.

BLITZ DUEL — Head to head over Game Center, five seconds a move. Clear two lines at once and grey rubble lands on the other board. Last player still able to move takes it. At that speed it stops being a thinking game and becomes a nerve game.

TIME ATTACK DUEL — Two minutes, same rules, highest score wins. Get blocked early and your score simply stands while the clock runs down — so you spend the last thirty seconds watching someone chase a number you can no longer defend.

IT LOOKS DIFFERENT EVERY TIME

The colour scheme changes each session, so the game you open tonight is not the one you closed this morning.

Play well and the plain tiles become desserts — cake, doughnuts, ice cream, macarons — each set with its own palette and its own board dressing. They are earned, never bought.

MAKE IT YOURS

Four block skins in the shop: Crystal Glass, Sweet Candy, Wooden Craft, Cyber Neon.

And a fifth that is free and not sold at all — Custom Photo Glass slices a photo of your choosing into the board itself. Tap the camera on the game screen. You supply the picture; charging you for it would be strange.

Seven clear effects: Tile Split, Star Shower, Prism Diamond, Laser Disintegrate, Dragon Flame, Black Hole Vortex, Lightning Plasma. Every one is a different piece of drawing code, not a recoloured version of the same burst.

Your own photos as the backdrop, too. Add several and they fade slowly from one to the next while you play.

EVERYTHING IS EARNED WITH STARS

One currency. Stars unlock every skin and every effect in the shop, and pay for the two power-ups: rotate a piece, or throw back a hand you cannot use.

Earn them by playing, from daily quests, from the daily reward, or from the free spin of the Lucky Wheel.

ALSO IN THE BOX

• Game Center leaderboard for the highest score
• Achievements worth chasing
• Daily quests and a daily reward that grows the longer you keep the streak
• A daily tournament for a hundred stars
• Twelve languages
• Classic and Adventure play entirely offline — on a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere. Duels need an opponent and a connection.
• Haptics, and a soft sound design that will not embarrass you in a quiet room

JELLIX is free. Stars can be bought if you want them faster, and never need to be.