Blocksum: Omake Version

Blocksum: Omake Version is a slight variation on the original Blocksum game. Most of the original mechanics are still there.

The play field shows a stack of blocks with numbers on them, which rises to the top slowly (this speeds up in later levels) and the game ends when the top is reached. The player can position the cursor (controlled with the keyboard or a joy-pad, and following the block grid) over a block and then press a button, drag onto a neighboring block and voila, the blocks are combined and their values are added. If a number of blocks equivalent to the numbers shown on them are adjacent a chain reaction starts. This stops the stack from rising, and the values on those connected blocks being frozen. Now any new blocks that touch them which are made to have the same value get added to the chain and when the player does not add new blocks for a while the chain stops and a score is awarded. The higher the numbers, and the more blocks have been combined the higher the score. The player can also make the stack rise faster with a second button, while no chain is active.

Where the Omake Version differs is that instead of the numbers adding up indefinitely they wrap around. Adding a "1" to a "9" results in a "0". "0's" behave like "1's" in that they do not start chain reactions. The original also had spheres which would occasionally show up. These could be connected to an adjacent block and the result would be that block and all blocks with the same number getting deleted from the play field. This mechanic is removed as well, presumably because the wrap around mechanic makes it a lot easier to get rid of blocks in general if one messes up.