Smashing Basics

How it works

Bust all the bricks
Deliver remaining balls into the finish hole
Advance to the next level

Easy as that. Except the balls speed up the longer you play. And you may get obsessed with beating “just one more level.”

Bricks

Skillshot to break the highlighted brick on launch: 250K
Destroy a brick: 5K
Hit a brick without destroying it: 1K
End of ball bonus: 2.5K per brick destroyed

Highlighted Brick

Smash a highlighted brick: 25K
Smash a second highlighted brick in the same level: 30K
Smash a third highlighted brick in the same level: 35K
Smash a fourth…. You get the idea. Max 75K
When you shatter a high scoring highlighted brick, the highlight moves to another brick unless there are less than 5 bricks left. It also moves automatically after 10 seconds.

Bonus Ball Captures, Bumpers, Slingshots, Rollovers

Capture any bonus ball: 50K
Hit a bumper: 5K
Bounce off a slingshot: 1K
Light all bottom rollovers: 75K

Targets

Hit a target: 8K
Light all 3 targets: 75K

Levels

Complete a level: 150K

Miscellaneous Good to Know

How will you annoy yourself the most while playing Brix? Clear all the bricks in a level but lose the ball before shooting it on the finish hole? Trust us on this one.
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Bonus balls

Some bricks contain special bonus balls hidden in them. Break those bricks to release the bonus balls.

Different bonus balls are different colors and have different effects on the game. Appearance of the balls is randomized so it’s always a surprise.

Capture the bonus ball in the hole that matches the color of the ball to score 50K points and activate the ball’s power.

Lose the normal ball while there is a bonus ball in play and the bonus ball immediately disappears.

Commonly occurring bonus balls

Green: +1 saves

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Yellow: will spawn a bonus bumper in the location the ball was captured

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White: slows down the ball speed (which accumulates over time)

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Red: extra flipper that lasts for 60 seconds

Less commonly seen bonus balls

Orange: +1 end-of-ball multiplier

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Magenta: blocker between the flippers. Last for 30 seconds. Note – it is hard to distinguish this one from the bright pink multiball because our developer appears to be color challenged.

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Bright pink: Multiball!

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Rare but awesome bonus balls

Purple: early exit opens the finish hole to advance to the next level without breaking all the bricks in the current level

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Blue: extra ball – the sasquatch of Brix

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Oulanes

Pins in the outlanes push the balls back into play as long as you have "Saves" left
When you are out of Saves, access to the pins is blocked and the ball drains away if it rolls down the outlane‍
The game start with 3 saves
You earn 1 extra with each new ball
Collect more saves with the green bonus balls

Autosave

Balls will be automatically put back in play once before:

breaking 2 bricks
or 30 seconds has elapsed
or scoring 50k

Checkpoints

Each new game of Brix starts over at level 1 unless you have acquired Checkpoints.
Once you have purchased ANY Pinball Deluxe: Reloaded table, you can get checkpoints with tickets
Checkpoints are in 5 level increments and you can only get ones for levels you’ve already conquered

BRIX

Smashing Basics

Miscellaneous Good to Know