Brick Smash Unblocked
Aim for the framed bricks, catch the power you picked and keep the ball alive.
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What is Brick Smash?
Brick Smash is an arcade brick breaker where you keep a ball bouncing between your paddle and a wall of bricks. Five layouts loop at rising speed, and marked bricks drop visible power-ups such as a laser, multi-ball or fireball. The goal is to clear every breakable brick while keeping at least one ball in play.
- Category
- Arcade Games
- Players
- 1 player
- Plays on
- Phone, tablet & desktop
- Input
- Mouse, Keyboard, Touch, Gamepad
- Made by
- Frank Force
- Checked
Brick Smash takes the classic wall-breaking formula, the one people often call Breakout, and adds one smart twist: you can see the power-ups before you hit them. Special bricks wear a colored border and a little picture of what they hold, so instead of hoping for a lucky drop you can steer the ball toward the laser or the extra ball you actually need. It is one of the games in Frank Force’s LittleJS Arcade collection and runs unblocked with mouse, keyboard, touch or gamepad.
Paddle, Ball and Five Walls
After pressing PLAY, launch the ball with a click, a tap or the Space bar. It rebounds off the side walls and ceiling and breaks whatever brick it strikes. The angle it leaves your paddle depends on where it lands: near the middle it goes up straight, near the ends it shoots off sideways.
Scoring. Regular bricks give 100 points and two-hit bricks give 200, and both are boosted by the active combo multiplier.
Lives. You start with three. If every ball in play drops past your paddle, you lose a life, and every power and paddle bonus you had goes with it.
Layouts. There are five in all:
- one full wall of bricks
- a stepped triangle
- a castle whose gray walls cannot break
- a checker pattern mixing one-hit and two-hit bricks
- a maze layout that is randomized every time
Break every breakable brick to advance. After layout five, the wave counter rises and the cycle restarts with a ball that is ten percent faster.
Brick Smash controls
| To do this | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide the paddle | Left and Right arrows, or A and D | Move the pointer left or right | Drag along the screen |
| Serve the ball, let go of a caught ball, or shoot the laser | Space or Enter | Left click | Tap |
| Start the run over | R | — | — |
| Pause the game | Esc | — | — |
Playing for Combos and Survival
Pick your power. Early in each layout, scan the framed bricks and aim for the one that helps most. A laser is great on a checkerboard, multi-ball on a wide wall.
Widen and keep widening. Every wide-paddle pickup adds more width, and that bonus stays with you from layout to layout as long as you keep your lives. Stack a few and the game becomes much safer.
Slip the ball behind the wall. Once it gets through a gap and bounces along the top, it can chew through a dozen bricks before coming back, and your combo grows with every one.
Fireball the thick spots. The fireball lasts eight seconds and smashes straight through regular and tough bricks alike, never rebounding. Save it for the densest part of a layout.
Laser the tough bricks. Every click sends up a pair of beams, letting you break tough bricks without putting the ball at risk.
Never skip the heart. It is the only way to gain an extra life.
A Modern Take on a Classic
Many brick breakers feel random. This one feels planned, because the visible power-ups let you make real choices. Floating combo numbers over broken bricks make big chains satisfying, and the looping waves give you a clear reason to keep going after you clear layout five. Your best score is saved between visits.
For more arcade action from the same toolkit, try Bubble Pop Shooter. If you prefer a head-to-head paddle game, Paddle Duel is a good match.
Brick Smash: questions players ask
What power-ups are in Brick Smash?
There are seven, namely a wider paddle, extra balls, a sticky paddle that catches, a laser, a fireball, a slower ball and a heart that adds a life. Each sits inside a framed brick with its icon showing, so you can decide which one to go after.
How do I get a big score in Brick Smash?
Build combos. Every brick broken before the ball comes back to your paddle raises the multiplier, so the second counts double and the third triple. Getting the ball above the brick wall is the easiest way to rack up long chains.
Why won't the gray bricks break?
Gray bricks are permanent walls. You never need to destroy them to finish a layout; only the breakable bricks count. Red ones marked with a dark spot are tougher, needing two hits before they disappear.
What happens after the fifth level?
You start over at layout one with a higher wave number and a ball that moves ten percent faster. The fifth layout is a maze built at random on every visit, so it is never quite the same twice.
Does Brick Smash support a controller?
Yes. Alongside mouse, keyboard and touch, it accepts a gamepad. Your top score is remembered, and the options menu adjusts volume and camera shake.
Credits and license
Brick Smash was created by Frank Force and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.
- Source code: github.com/KilledByAPixel (original project)
- Code license: MIT
- Art & audio: MIT (bricks and paddle drawn in code, sounds generated in code; power-up icons use your device's emoji font)
- Our changes: We renamed it from Brickout, gathered the engine files into one folder and reworded one code comment. The levels and gameplay are as the author made them.
