All ages · Made for the big screen
Brick breaker game: Lantern Smash
A wall of paper lanterns, a paddle and one bright ball. Keep it in the air and smash the lot. Pass the remote: best run wins.
- ~10 min
- 1–10 people
- One device, or phones
- Free
- Ages 6+
What it feels like
One ball, one paddle, a whole wall of lanterns. Let's break some. Here's how it works. Move the paddle with left and right, and launch the ball with OK. Keep it bouncing into the lanterns: the higher the lantern, the more it's worth. Three lives a run. Pass the remote when you're done. Best run wins.
How to play
- Pass the remote round the room. Each of you gets one run of up to 90 seconds.
- Left and right move the paddle along the bottom; OK launches the ball.
- Bounce the ball into the lanterns. Miss it and you lose a life; three lives a run. Clear the wall and a faster one goes up.
Scoring: Higher lanterns are worth more: 10 for the bottom row up to 60 for the top. Best run wins.
What you need
1 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
