Tower Stack

Blocks swing past and you drop them on the stack below. Anything hanging over the edge is sheared off, so the tower narrows every time you are late. A run ends when the tower is too thin to land on.

Two coins a point, the highest rate in the arcade, because the game has a natural ceiling: a perfect stack narrows to nothing eventually regardless of skill, so there is no way to farm it by playing longer.

The cabinet pays 2 coins per point of score, before the daily cap described on the arcade page.

Aim for the trailing edge rather than the centre. A block dropped slightly late shears off the side you can afford to lose; one dropped early shears off the side you are about to need.

That is the highest rate in the arcade. The rates are not arbitrary: a cabinet with a natural ceiling pays more per point than one you can play forever, because the second kind can be farmed by playing longer and the first can only be farmed by playing better.

The tempo is a design parameter rather than decoration. A cabinet is allowed its own BPM and nothing else about its music, because tempo is the one musical thing a game has an opinion about — a game played in bursts wants a different pulse from one played in a held breath. At 132 this is at the fast end of the arcade.

Payouts are computed on the server, not in your browser — a balance the page holds is a balance a player can edit. The first 500 coins a day come at full rate and everything after that at a fifth.

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