THE FIELD GUIDE / DORT
Place the falling pieces, swap locked tiles and open up the board with matches of four. The best way to learn is to make a move.
FROM READING TO PLAYING
Eight short lessons. No clock. As many tries as you like.
Select the marked tile, then its neighbour, or drag between them. Keyboard: Tab to the board, arrows to navigate, Enter to select, Escape to cancel.
Read the full rulePractice uses compact 8×8 example boards. The first lesson pauses automatic falling and the clock; rotation is simplified, without wall kicks. The full game normally uses an 8×16 board.
01 / THE BASICS
The standard board is 8×16; every 16th level uses 8×8. Pieces spawn from the edge opposite gravity and lock the instant they cannot fall further. If a new piece cannot spawn, you top out.
A shuffled 12-piece bag contains I, O, T, S, Z, L, J; I3, L3, J3; I2 and a single tile. There is no next-piece preview or hold.
Swap two locked neighbours horizontally or vertically. No diagonals, empty cells or obstacles. A swap does not have to make a match.
Four or more of the same element explode in a horizontal line, a vertical line or a 2×2 square. Every element matches, whatever your warrior. A tile in overlapping patterns counts once.
Element explosions resolve first. Only affected columns fall, potentially creating another match. Once no matches remain, full rows clear and the rows above shift down. Input is locked throughout resolution; the next piece arrives when the board is stable. With sideways gravity, local falls affect rows and full-line clears remove vertical columns instead.
02 / PHONE CONTROLS
The touchpad at the bottom controls the falling piece. Where your finger lands does not matter; the direction does. These directions assume Down gravity.
Move one cell; keep holding to keep moving.
Rotate the piece.
Quick release: hard drop. Keep holding: soft drop.
T4: unlocked, one charge available, gravity Down.
Drag a locked tile to its neighbour to swap.
Gravity Shift: swipe both fingers in the new direction.
When gravity turns, the controls turn with it: drop toward gravity, rotate against it, move along the other axis.
03 / PROGRESSION
Your warrior total is the sum of that warrior’s best net score on each level. Replays do not simply add more points; improving a level best raises the total. All four warriors progress separately.
Milestone formula: 1,000 × L × (L + 1) / 2. T1–T4 correspond to milestones 4 / 8 / 12 / 16. Time deductions from net scores can make the actual unlock happen later.
10,000 / WARRIOR TOTAL
Automatic. Each exploded tile of your own element earns +1. Your own element scores base 80 per tile, the other elements 40. For an Air warrior, four Air tiles score 4 × (80 + 1) = 324; four of another element score 4 × 40 = 160.
The bonus rises by +1 every fourth milestone: +2 at 36,000, +3 at 78,000, +4 at 136,000. These are warrior-total thresholds, not a guarantee that finishing the corresponding level unlocks them.
36,000 / WARRIOR TOTAL
Match 5 or more of your own element to create a bomb. Only one bomb is created per resolve, from the largest qualifying match. After a swap, it appears where your moved tile landed. The tile becoming a bomb still scores.
Normal line clears leave bombs intact. Bomb blasts count as Element Score, without a line multiplier. Every destroyed element gets the +8 bomb bonus; it rises to +16 at 136,000.
78,000 / WARRIOR TOTAL
Automatic. When your own element explodes, every normal tile of the mapped source element transforms. Bombs, obstacles and the falling piece stay unchanged. A bomb detonation does not itself trigger T3.
| Warrior | Transforms |
|---|---|
| Fire | Water → Air |
| Water | Fire → Earth |
| Air | Earth → Fire |
| Earth | Air → Water |
It triggers at most once per resolve step. Tiles exploded by the resulting cascade get +12, whatever their element; the next T3 milestone raises this to +24. It does not stack with T1.
136,000 / WARRIOR TOTAL
Hold the touchpad still for 1.6 seconds. Gravity must be Down. Each use spends one T4 charge, even if a valid activation does not change the board.
After unlock, earn +1 charge at 25%, 50% and 75% of a level’s goal: at most 3 new charges per level. Keep unused charges between levels, with no storage limit. Thresholds crossed before unlock do not award charges retroactively.
Tiles destroyed by T4 and its chain get +16, whatever their element; this rises to +32 at 528,000. The first unlock pauses the game for a short tutorial.
Fire leaves bombs and obstacles untouched directly. Earth and Water stop at obstacles and foreign-element bombs. If a same-element bomb is present, it detonates that element and the sweep is skipped. Air tiles pass through fixed obstacles but cannot occupy their cells. T4 does not directly damage obstacles; resulting eligible matches can.
04 / GRAVITY SHIFT
Gravity Shift is separate from T1–T4. Natural charge earning starts at level 17. Earn +1 at 25%, 50% and 75% of the goal: at most 3 new charges per level, kept between levels without a storage limit.
Swipe two fingers together on the board: the whole board settles Left, Up, Right or Down. Each new direction spends 1 charge, including returning to Down. Selecting the current direction spends nothing. New pieces spawn from the opposite edge.
Forced-gravity levels disable both Gravity Shift and T4. Purchased Gravity Shift charges can be used in PvE from level 1. Guest PvE attempts also start with four practice Gravity charges.
05 / SCORING & OBJECTIVES
Exploded tile: 80 (your element) or 40 (other elements) + the active context bonus. T1 applies only to your own element; T2, T3 and T4 apply to any element destroyed by that effect. Bonuses never stack.
Line clear: normal tiles cleared × 10 × line multiplier. No skill bonus. Apply the gravity multiplier last.
| Rows | Name | Multiplier |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Single | ×1 |
| 2 | DOUBLE | ×2 |
| 3 | TRIPLE | ×3 |
| 4 | DORT | ×4 |
Line Score + Element Score.
Only line points fill the target.
Only element points fill the target.
50% Line + 50% Element. Extra on one side cannot fill the other.
Target = level number × 1,000. Pieces fall faster as you approach it. Excluded points still appear in their own score box. Skills remain usable regardless of which score the objective counts.
Net score = max(0, objective score − seconds × penalty)
1–64: ×1 · 65–128: ×2 · 129–192: ×3 · 193–256: ×4
Example: level 40, 40,000 points in 120 seconds → 39,880 net points.
06 / OBSTACLES
Wood takes 1 hit, Iron 2, Steel 3 and Diamond 4 separate hits. Obstacles stay fixed and cannot be swapped. An orthogonally adjacent own-element match or a bomb blast removes at most one health per explosion.
Obstacles do not count as filled tiles; a line containing one cannot clear. To finish, reach the score target and destroy every obstacle.
07 / OPTIONAL ITEMS
Optional PvE items: Bomb converts a locked own-element tile after a 1.2-second stationary hold. It spends one Bomb without detonating it. Time Freeze is activated by tapping the hourglass: the falling piece slows for 10 seconds, while the level timer and penalty keep running. Gravity Shift charges and Remove Ads are also available. Purchased gameplay items never work in Ranked 1v1.
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Guests can play PvE and Casual modes. An account saves progression on the server and unlocks access to Ranked. Guest practice scores do not migrate to an account.
Use Create Room to share a code, Join Room to enter one, or Find Match. Choose a target of 4,000 / 8,000 / 12,000 / 16,000. Reach it first, or win when the opponent tops out. Both players receive the same piece sequence.
Ranked requires an account, uses your warrior’s real progression and changes rating. Casual and guest 1v1 use standard level-64 power and are unrated. Your accumulated PvE charges do not carry into Ranked.
Each team shares one board. The Master controls the falling piece, gravity and T4; the Warrior handles swaps and element combos. 2v2 is Casual.
You need 136,000 warrior total, at least one T4 charge and Down gravity. Hold still on the touchpad for 1.6 seconds. Forced-gravity levels disable T4.
No. These small boards are teaching examples. They do not spend your game charges or save game scores.