The stack keeps rising, slide your two-wide cursor to swap blocks, line up three of a colour to clear them, and hold the tower below the ceiling.
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How to play
A wall of coloured blocks creeps upward from the bottom. Move a two-wide cursor over any pair and swap them sideways to arrange matches; three or more of one colour in a line clear and the blocks above drop down. Chains earn meter you can spend to lift a column. Let the stack reach the top and the game ends.
Swap two side-by-side blocks to build matches of three or more
Clears collapse the stack and can chain for combos
Spend combo meter to lift a column out of trouble
Keep the rising stack below the ceiling
Game modes
Endless, survive a steadily rising board solo
Vs CPU, match against the computer at varying difficulty
2-Player Hot-seat, share the keyboard locally
Online, play against another person
Controls
Desktop: WASD or Arrows move the cursor, Space or J swaps, F lifts a column, Shift raises the stack; hot-seat P2 uses I/K/H/L, Enter and Right-Shift
Phone & tablet: keyboard recommended for this fast match puzzle
Tips & strategy
Set up a clear lower down so falling blocks trigger a chain above
Bank combo meter for an emergency column lift when the top gets close
Work across the whole width, a tall single column is hard to recover
Origins
Swaprise revisits the rising-stack puzzle of the mid-1990s, slide a cursor to swap blocks in a wall that creeps ever upward, matching three to clear and setting up falling chains, solo or head-to-head. A beloved, more thoughtful match-three.
About Swaprise
Swaprise is an original free browser game in the rising-block swap-matching tradition, with solo, CPU, local and online play. Just open and play.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
