SIMPLE LINES

Woodbox marble lines — Lines of pearls in a wooden box) - this is the name given to their game by the developers. Looking at this box, I want to call it a box, it's so small. However, it easily fits a 9x9 field for playing Lines. Elements placed in cells — strict classics — multi-colored balls.

Balls-lines gained popularity at the end of the last century, when personal computers went to the masses. The simplicity of the rules, logic and the ability to play indefinitely (it all depends on both luck and your abilities) support interest in the game to this day.

At the very beginning, only three balls randomly appear on the field. Their number increases with each of your moves, during which you did not manage to remove a single line. What is this line? This is a chain (sequence, row) There are at least five balls of the same color standing diagonally, horizontally, or vertically next to each other. You collect these rows yourself by moving the balls from cell to cell. Each such sequence collected by you disappears from the field, and in this turn no new balls appear in the cells.

The game continues as long as you have the opportunity to move at least one ball. However, in fact, you can start from the beginning already when it becomes clear that no new line can be assembled anymore.