NuDots

Board

Mode - tap to start

The basics

Drag across dots of the same color that touch side to side or up and down. No diagonals. Let go and they clear.

Close a loop by ending on a dot already in your chain, making a ring of four or more. Every dot of that color clears from the whole board. Dots caught inside the ring clear too, along with every other dot of their colors.

Modes

Timed

60 seconds. The clock starts on your first touch. Power-ups use time.

Moves

30 connections. Power-ups use moves.

Endless

No limit and no power-ups, but every 10 connections a rock drops in. Rocks never match. Close a loop around a rock to break it for 1,000 points. The game ends when no moves are available.

Zen

No clock, no move limit, free power-ups. A stuck board ends the game. End it from the New game panel whenever you like.

In Timed and Moves, a stuck board requires the use of a Power-up to continue.

Power-ups

Shrink

Tap it, then tap any dot to remove that one dot.

Sweep

Tap it, then tap a dot to clear every dot of its color.

Use them as often as you like. In Moves, Shrink costs 1 move and Sweep costs 2. In Timed, Shrink costs 1 second and Sweep costs 3. In Zen they are free. Endless has none. Tap a selected power-up again to put it away.

Scoring

Long chains pay. Each dot in a chain is worth 10 more than the one before it: 10, 20, 30, and so on. Closing a loop doubles the chain. Each dot circled inside the loop scores 500, and every other dot the loop clears adds 10. Dots cleared by a power-up are 10 each.

Chain of 3	60
Chain of 6	210
4-dot square that clears 8 dots	240
10-dot loop that clears 12 dots	1,120

Best scores are kept separately for each mode and board size. Tap the trophy for your top scores, lifetime stats, and achievements.

Keyboard

Arrows move, Space or Enter starts and finishes a chain, Esc cancels. 1 and 2 use the power-ups.

License

NuDots by Kevin MacLeod, Danger Academy. It is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.