March 6th, 2010

Bunch – Puzzle Games

Whether if you are bored at home, or tired at work and you wish to take a short break to relax and do something fun you can always choose to play a free online flash game on your computer. There are all sorts of games like this, with all sorts of topics and characters. When you are at work you can’t choose to play a silly game, or a bloody game or worst of all an adult game, because it is possible that others will see you doing this. And that’s why most of the people at work choose to play a puzzle game. These are quite simple games, with easy controls (usually you have to use just the mouse) but they will get more and more complicated as you advance. They usually require some concentration and will put your mind to the test.

There are many fun puzzle games found on different sites, and one of them is called “Bunch” and is found on the site miniclip.com. Your objective in this game is to swap the colored balls, and to create bunches of balls that have the same color. The bigger the bunch, the more points you will receive. You can swap ball horizontally or vertically, but not any ball can be swapped with the one next to it. You can swap two balls if at least one of them that will be swapped has a ball of the same color next to it, in the new position. In some games you will lose points if you make an invalid swap, so that’s why you have to think before you act, and not just click randomly on the screen. So the controls are simple…all you have to do is use the mouse to click on 2 balls that you want to swap. When you think you have enough balls of the same color next to each other you can press the “collect” button (or press the space bar on the keyboard) to collect the points. Those balls that have the same color and are place close to one another will disappear, and new ball will appear on the screen. If you want to get more points, it is best to take a few more time and try to make bunches of as many balls as possible. For example a bunch of 8 balls worths more points than 2 bunches of 4 balls.

There are also 2 types of bonuses that you can receive. First there is the bonus that gives you twice as much points than a normal bunch, and this one takes place when you manage to make a bunch of balls that are going vertically or horizontally from one end of the board to the other. The other bonus is when you manage to bunch together all the balls of the same color from the board, and in this case you will receive three times the points as a normal bunch. And last of all there will be a huge bonus if you can bunch every ball on the screen, and make them all disappear. But of course this will be very difficult.

After all this is quite a fun game, that will put your visual agility and speed to the test. And here is a screenshot for the Bunch puzzle game directly take from the browser.