Suds Pop
Aim and fire bubbles to match three of a colour, and pop the bubbles that hold the rest so whole groups fall.
Suds Pop is a bubble shooter in three worlds of 20 levels: soap bubbles on a tiled wall, sewing buttons on a haberdasher's card, and glass micro-shells on a specimen plate. Each level is a field of colours hanging from the top; you fire one at a time from the launcher at the foot.
The goal
Clear the whole field. A level ends when the field is clear, when one crosses the line near the foot, or when the shots run out with any left; a lost level can be played again at once. A clear under 30 seconds gets three stars, under 45 seconds two, and any other clear one. The clock starts when you first aim and stops while the game is paused or its tab is hidden.
How a shot goes
- A shot flies straight and bounces off the sides, then sticks where it meets the field or the top.
- Three or more of one colour that touch pop. Anything then left hanging, with nothing holding it to the top, falls.
- A pop scores 10. A fallen one scores 20, and 40 for each one past the first four in the same shot.
- The next shot waits beside the launcher; tap the launcher to swap them, as often as you like.
- Five shots in a row that each pop or drop something fill the meter beside the launcher and earn a rainbow shot. A shot that takes nothing empties it.
The specials
Each world brings new specials, and later levels mix in the ones before. The first time a special is on the field, a tag says what it does.
| Special | First on | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Bomb | Soap film 1 | Land a shot beside it and it blows up the ring around it |
| Rainbow | Soap film 1 | Matches any colour |
| Stone | Soap film 1 | Never pops; cut it loose and it falls |
| Frozen | Soap film 3 | A match beside it thaws it, and then it pops like the rest |
| Bolt | Soap film 7 | Pop it and its whole row goes |
| Gift | Soap film 9 | Pop or drop it for a tool |
| Star | Soap film 11 | Land a shot beside it and every one of the shot's colour goes |
| Hidden | Soap film 14 | Shows its colour when a neighbour goes |
| Shifter | Button tin 1 | Turns colour every shot |
| Keepsake | Button tin 4 | Never pops; drop it for 100 points |
| Magnet | Button tin 7 | Bends a shot that passes it |
| Linked | Button tin 14 | One pops, and every linked one goes with it |
| Repeller | Button tin 17 | Pushes a shot away |
| Ghost | Specimen plate I | Shots pass through it |
| Brush | Specimen plate V | Land a shot beside it and the ring around it takes the shot's colour |
| Sealed | Specimen plate XIII | Frozen twice: two matches beside it to thaw |
From Specimen plate XVII the field drifts: every 8 shots it comes down two rows.
The tools
A level may give you tools; the slot to the right of the launcher shows the next one and how many are left. Tap it to arm a tool, then shoot to use it; tap again for the next tool. A popped or dropped gift, or a shot that drops eight or more, earns another.
| Tool | First on | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Bomb shot | Soap film 1 | Blows up two rings around where it lands |
| Fireball | Soap film 5 | Burns straight through to the top |
| Rainbow shot | Soap film 17 | Takes the colour that makes the biggest group where it lands |
| Spare | Button tin 10 | Three more shots |
| Star shot | Specimen plate IX | Every one of its colour goes |
Controls
- Phone, tablet or mouse: drag on the field to aim and let go to shoot. Tap the launcher to swap, and the tool slot to arm a tool.
- Keyboard: the left and right arrows aim (with Shift, finer); Space or Enter shoots; S or the down arrow swaps; T or the up arrow arms a tool.
- The level number, top left, or Escape pauses: Resume, Restart, How to play, Sound and Levels.
- The gear, top right, opens the site's Settings. With the device set to reduce motion, shots land at once and nothing shakes or flies.
Tacs and awards
- A clear pays one Tac for each star better than your best on that level, so a level pays at most 3.
- The first world is open. The next opens when you clear 10 levels of the one before, or at once for 60 Tacs.
- Awards pay Tacs once: Soap film cleared 15, Button tin cleared 20, Specimen plate cleared 25, thirty falling in one shot 10, a level in one shot 10, ten levels under 30 seconds 10, and every level under 30 seconds 30.
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