Panel de Pon and Tetris Attack guides
The short version: swap two blocks side by side, line up three of a kind in a row or a column, and let the blocks above fall. A fall that makes a new line is a chain. Four or more blocks at once is a combo. In versus the stack rises and both send garbage to your rival. The how to play guide has the full rules and a worked example. The rest go deeper, all the way to the exact frame data and garbage tables. Every guide describes Cascade Puzzle, a free browser game that plays by these rules.
Which guide do you need?
- Never played: how to play Panel de Pon and Tetris Attack, the rules in 30 seconds and a worked example.
- Know the rules, want bigger clears: chain reactions and cascades.
- Stuck on a hard daily board: strategy for tight move limits.
- Playing versus: garbage blocks and stop time, then the frame data and garbage tables.
- A word you do not know: the glossary.
How to play Panel de Pon, Tetris Attack and Cascade Puzzle
Panel de Pon and Tetris Attack rules in two minutes: swap two blocks side by side, match three, and chain the falls. Combos, garbage and a worked example.
Chain reactions and cascades
How cascades work in Cascade Puzzle: why gravity turns one match into several, the difference between a combo and a chain, and how to set up multi-step chain reactions on purpose.
Strategy: clearing the board inside the move limit
Nine concrete techniques for solving move-limited block puzzles: count parity before you swap, solve the endgame backwards, use setup moves, and clear under the tallest stack.
The daily puzzle and how streaks work
Three new puzzles every day at midnight UTC: easy, medium and hard. How the daily tiers unlock, exactly what keeps a streak alive, and how the shareable result works.
Versus mode: real-time 1v1 and garbage blocks
How real-time versus works in Cascade Puzzle: a continuously rising stack, combos and chains that send garbage to your opponent, stop time, and the bot ladder from Sprout to Master.
Tetris Attack and Panel de Pon mechanics: chains, garbage and frame data
Tetris Attack and Panel de Pon mechanics in exact numbers: chains vs combos, garbage tables, stop time, rise speed levels and frame data.
Block puzzle glossary
Plain definitions of the terms used in block-swapping puzzle games: cascade, chain, combo, garbage, setup move, stop time, topping out, telegraph, and more.
About Cascade Puzzle
Cascade Puzzle is a block-swapping puzzle game that runs in any modern browser. Nothing to download, no sign-up. You swap two blocks side by side to line up three or more of the same colour. Matched blocks clear, the blocks above them fall, and those falls can set off more matches. Clear the whole board within the move limit to win.
There are four ways to play: a 50-level campaign that introduces the mechanics in order, a daily puzzle with three difficulty tiers and a streak, an open practice pool, and a real-time 1v1 versus mode in the tradition of Tetris Attack and Panel de Pon. If you have never played, the interactive tutorial teaches each mechanic hands-on.
Where the Panel de Pon community plays
Looking for serious competition? Panel Attack is the community's free desktop game for Windows, Mac and Linux. It has online matches, replays and an active tournament scene, and it is where the best players of the genre meet.
Cascade Puzzle is the quick version for a browser: open a link on a phone or laptop and you are playing in seconds. New to the genre? Start with Panel de Pon online, Tetris Attack online or Puzzle League online, depending on the name you grew up with.