Drop numbered discs into seven columns and watch a disc vanish the instant the row or column it lands in reaches the target total.
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How to play
Drop numbered discs into a seven-by-seven grid and they fall to the lowest free cell. A disc clears when the number of discs sharing its row, or its column, equals the number printed on it — so a 3 goes when it is one of exactly three discs in a line, and the value is a target count rather than a total.
Discs are numbered one to seven and always fall to the bottom of the chosen column.
Row and column are checked independently: either one reaching the disc's value clears it.
All clears in a settle happen at once, then gravity pulls everything down.
That fall can complete another line, which clears as a second wave, and so on.
Each successive wave in a chain scores more than the one before it.
Game modes
Daily, the seeded board everyone shares that day
Endless boards that rank on their own
Controls
Desktop: click a column, or press number keys 1–7, to drop the disc
Phone & tablet: tap the column you want to drop into
Tips & strategy
Count lines, not sums. A disc is waiting for a population, so a 5 in a row of four is one disc away regardless of what those discs are worth.
Low numbers are volatile. A 1 clears the moment it is alone in a line, which makes it useful for opening a column and hopeless for building with.
High numbers are scaffolding. A 6 or 7 will sit for a long time, so put them where you want structure rather than where you want a clear.
Build for the second wave. The first clear is worth least, so the good move is usually the one that sets up what falls afterwards.
Watch both axes at once. Most accidental clears come from a column reaching its count while you were thinking about the row.
Origins
Tally Drop is not a remake of anything. It takes the shape of the falling-block puzzle — pieces arriving from above, a stack you manage, a clear that cascades — and puts counting where the colour matching usually goes.
A disc clears when the number of discs sharing its row, or its column, matches the number printed on it. That is a population rather than a total, so the board has to be read as lines rather than pattern-matched, and a disc you dropped several turns ago can go off because of something that landed nowhere near it.
About Tally Drop
Tally Drop is an original free browser number puzzle that blends column-dropping with target-sum clearing, including a shared daily board. No download needed.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
