Photosynth

Photosynth blends block placement with living, growing pieces. You drop the front piece from a three-piece queue onto empty cells. After every placement each plant ages one stage and also creeps one cell toward the light. A row or column clears for points only when it is completely full AND every plant in it is mature.

• Place the queued piece on any empty footprint that fits in bounds.
• Plants grow one step toward the light each turn, so aim growth to finish lines.
• A full line of mature plants clears and scores; clearing several at once multiplies the reward.
• The run ends when the next piece can no longer fit anywhere on the plot.

• Desktop: click an empty area to drop the front piece; the footprint previews under your cursor. Click the sun button, then click a cell or border to move the light.
• Phone & tablet: tap to plant and tap the sun toggle, then tap to reposition the light, full touch support.

• Daily: one shared seed and piece order for everyone, so scores compare fairly.
• Practice: a fresh random garden every time.

• Reposition the light to bend growth into the gaps that complete a line instead of overflowing it.
• Keep low parts of the plot open, a piece that cannot fit ends the run, so leave room for awkward shapes.

Dropping pieces from a queue onto a grid and clearing full lines is the placement puzzle Tetris established.

The original change is that the pieces are alive. After every placement each plant ages one stage and creeps one cell toward the light — real plants do this, and the behaviour has a name: phototropism.

That makes the board move without you, and adds a second clear condition: a full line scores only if every plant in it is mature. So a row completed too early is worse than no row, and the correct play is often to leave a gap and wait.

Photosynth reimagines the line-clearing placement puzzle with organic, light-driven growth instead of static blocks. It is an original free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.