PopSkip help

The rule

Pop every bubble on the sheet. Start on any bubble that glows. After each pop, move straight (skip two bubbles and land on the third) or diagonally (skip one and land on the second). You can never land on a bubble that is already popped. The glowing bubbles are the ones you can reach next; not every one of them leads to a finish.

Every roll can be finished. Getting stuck part-way is the puzzle. To see the rule again, open Settings and replay Piri's lesson or How to play.

Undo and Hint

Undo takes back your last pop. Hint shows a safe next move, and when you are stuck it offers to take you back to a point where the roll can still be finished. Each use spends one from your supply, shown on the buttons.

You earn more by meeting today's goals on the Today page (one Undo) and with every badge (one Undo and one Hint). In the iPhone and Android apps, when you have no hints left you can also watch a short video for one more hint, up to three a day; you never have to. A roll finished with Undo or Hint counts as finished; finishing one without help earns the Clean clear badge.

Daily roll and streak

Today's roll opens once you have finished roll 2. Your streak counts the days on which you finish at least one roll, by your device's calendar.

Progress

Your progress, profile and settings are stored on this device: in the browser, or in the app. They do not move to another phone or computer, and clearing the browser's site data or deleting the app erases them. Nothing about your play is stored on our servers.

Playing offline and on the home screen

The apps work without a connection from the start; only the optional videos need one. In the browser, PopSkip keeps working offline after it has loaded once. To keep the browser version on your home screen: on iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, open the Chrome menu and choose Add to Home screen or Install app.

Sound on iPhone

Sounds are real recordings and play after your first tap. They follow the silent switch: with the switch on silent you hear nothing, as with other games. To hear them anyway, tap the speaker during a roll and turn on Sound even on silent (other apps' music then pauses). If you still hear nothing, check the speaker's switches and the phone's volume.

Something wrong?

Write through the contact form, choose PopSkip as the topic, and include your phone model and the app's version (Settings, at the bottom) or your browser.