Outrush: Block Escape

Every block wears an arrow. Tap it and it slides that way until something stops it — a wall, another block, or the gap it escapes through. The whole game is in what happens next. Line blocks up nose to tail and clearing the front one pulls the rest out behind it, one after another, in a single tap. Four deep is where the points are. TWO WAYS TO PLAY Endless — the board keeps filling. Keep it from closing over. Chains multiply, streaks stack, and the run ends when the next block has nowhere to land. Levels — a ladder that keeps going, every rung built with a par. A solver checks each one, and it has never beaten par, so matching it is the ceiling rather than a suggestion. Clear one at par the first time and it pays a star. WHAT MAKES A RUN Gold blocks pay more. Bomb blocks take their neighbours with them. Locked blocks crack open when you clear beside them, and a board that would…