Playbook
How to play Flood Shift
Start from the top-left corner and change its color to swallow matching neighbors. Fill the whole grid before you run out of turns. Planning two colors ahead is worth more than tapping the most common hue every time.
Controls
Tap a color chip below the board. The flooded region always starts at the top-left cell and expands into neighbors of the same color. There is no dragging and no diagonal flood.
Scoring and lives
A full-board flood scores leftover turns plus a finish bonus. Running out of turns ends the puzzle with the filled cells as a consolation score. There are no lives; start a new board whenever you want a cleaner line.
Habits that raise the ceiling
Count how a color would grow before you tap it. Prefer a color that opens a second color next, not merely the largest blob of the moment. Corners are expensive to leave behind.
Common mistakes
- Always picking the currently most common color
- Ignoring a small corridor that traps an island
- Spending the last three turns without a finish plan
A two-minute drill
Solve one board while naming the next two colors out loud before each tap. If you cannot name the second color, wait. The pause is the skill.
This page is a complete how-to, not a wrapper around an ad. If you want more depth, the journal explains practice, lives, and fair difficulty for the whole arcade.