BBEOL MAGAZINE / ARCADE STORIES
Play notes with concrete board examples, the reasons behind interface changes, and accounts of bugs we fixed.
Free Halloween mini games you can play in your browser with no download. Starring Goof's Spooky Candy Pop, a one-minute match-3 where candy turns into Bbeol Coins until October 31, plus other free browser games to play alongside it.
Free browser games that take about a minute: perfect for a coffee break, a queue or waiting for the kettle. Candy Pop, Paper Flight, Number Pop and Make Ten, sorted by round length, all playable on phone or PC with no download or sign-up.
Goof's Spooky Candy Pop is the newest Bbeol Arcade game: a free one-minute match-3 where you swap neighboring candies to line up three. Until October 31, popped candy turns into Bbeol Coins. Rules, special candies and today's board rankings inside.
Tips for a higher score in Goof's Spooky Candy Pop, the one-minute match-3: how to make brooms, lanterns and crystal balls, how chains and combos multiply, when to trigger Fever, and how to play today's board.
Two free number puzzle games you can play in your browser with no install: Number Pop, where you chain numbers in order, and Make Ten, where you box numbers that add up to 10. Rules, round length, who each suits, and their daily modes.
An endless-mode guide for Hexa Tap, the free hexagon color-sort puzzle: handling the ice that spreads from level 8, scoring big with chains, placing so the board lasts, and posting to today's course ranking.
A guide to Paper Flight's Precision landing and Ring hunt modes in the free paper plane game: cutting your landing error, stalling to drop fast, keeping ring combos alive up to 100 points, and ranked runs.
Today's Bbeol Arcade updates in one place: Paper Flight's ghost plane of your best flight and low-effects mode, scores in share text, Hexa Tap color-blind mode, the 20-coin Today's Bbeol Mission, and Number Pop's next-number preview for Popbot Duel.
Hexa Tap v3, the free hexagon color-sort puzzle: runs that dragged on for 20–30 minutes now end in about 7–8, plus 12 achievements with Bbeol Coin rewards. The full list and tips to unlock them.
How to raise your score in the number-chain puzzle Number Pop's Score Challenge: points for 3, 4 and 5 links, combo multipliers, Popcorn Fever, time bonuses and mistake penalties, and when to use hints.
Five free games you can play right in your browser with no app download or sign-up: the number-chain puzzle Number Pop, box-to-ten Make Ten, paper plane game Paper Flight, color-sort puzzle Hexa Tap and the one-minute Halloween match-3 Candy Pop, with what each is best for.
Hexa Tap adds a Daily Challenge where everyone plays the same board: the 40-move rule, posting to the ranking without signing in, server verification, scoring tips and Today's Rankings.
How to play Hexa Tap, the free no-install hexagon color-sort puzzle: how chips gather, popping ten and chaining, ice and move limits, and where beginners usually get stuck.
Every mode in the free paper plane game Paper Flight in one guide: Distance, the 1km speed run, the new Precision landing and Ring hunt, and Daily Wind, with rules, tips and all 11 achievements.
Make Ten adds a 50-pop sprint where you clear 50 numbers as fast as you can, plus 13 achievements. The full achievement list, Bbeol Coin rewards and tips to cut your sprint time.
Hexa Tap v2, the free hexagon color-sort puzzle where ten matching chips pop: a leftover-moves bonus, an easier level 5, ice-crack alerts, Bbeol Coin rewards and tile palette cosmetics.
Number Pop v0.9.8: Popbot Duel becomes a best-of-three series with per-opponent win streaks and personalities, and the Daily Challenge gets a This week tab that adds up your best score of each day, Monday to Sunday.
Today's Rankings brings Number Pop's Daily Challenge, Paper Flight's Daily Wind and Make Ten's Daily Puzzle leaderboards together on one page. How rank bonus coins and sign-in badges work.
Paper Flight adds a Daily Wind ranking where everyone flies the same course each day, plus a 1km speed run. How to join the ranking with just a nickname, how flights are verified and how to delete your entries.
How do you make a paper plane fly farther in a game? A distance guide for the free browser game Paper Flight: the 30–40° launch, tapping instead of holding, ring combos and rescues, the asteroid field in space and the 5km storm zone.
A guide to the new 1km speed run in Paper Flight. In this 20-second time attack scored by average speed to the finish line, use fans and low rings to set a new top-speed record.
How to practice number bonds to 10, a core early-math skill, through play. Step-by-step practice from 1+9 to boxing several numbers into ten, plus tips for enjoying the free number puzzle Make Ten with kids.
A strategy guide for Make Ten, the free number puzzle where you box numbers that add up to 10. How scoring works, using empty cells for bigger boxes, and 7 tips for the 2-minute challenge and the Daily Puzzle.
Paper Flight v0.9, the free paper plane browser game: a storm zone at 5km, laps that repeat from 7.5km, a 30–40° launch boost, rescues earned with 3 rings in a row, top speed on the result screen and Bbeol Coin cosmetics.
Bbeol Arcade now has a Bbeol Coin shop. Learn how to earn coins with a daily check-in (no sign-in needed), the reward rules, what you can buy today and which game items are coming next.
Make Ten, the free box-to-ten number puzzle, reaches v1.0 with a Daily Puzzle everyone plays on the same board, fresh numbers that refill stuck boards, and a much lighter share image.
Number Pop now has 17 achievements. Here is the full list for Score Challenge, Popbot Duel and the Daily Challenge, with tips for unlocking them, titles and cosmetic rewards (tile flavors, pop effects, Popbot outfits, backgrounds), the new unlock celebration and home-screen progress card, plus a faster first load.
How to install Number Pop on your phone's home screen without an app store, and how v0.9's offline support lets you play on the subway or a plane.
Number Pop's new Daily Challenge gives everyone the same starting board each day: 20 links, no hints. Here are the rules, scoring, daily streaks and tips for a high score.
Number Pop's duel mode lets you trade moves with an AI on one shared number board. Learn how the Practice, Challenge and Expert bots differ, how length scoring and the 3-second speed bonus work, and how to use catch-up turns to win.
Experts and beginners both finished Score Challenge in two minutes, combo bonuses made up 40% of the score, and beginners beat the Practice bot every time. Here is what hundreds of simulated runs revealed and everything we changed in Number Pop v0.7.
Why pastel cloud tiles still felt like something was missing. The story behind Number Pop's 2nd major UI evolution into butter-toasted 3D popcorn tiles with jelly gem beads, lively percussive arcade BGM, and an adrenaline-pumping 8-second 2x Fever scoring rush.
Why tile color can help your search while numbers and positions remain essential.
Compare a longer connection’s reward with the time spent looking for it.
Use a small board to distinguish a visually tempting route from a valid connection.
My close buddy asked why it looked like a tax filing sheet, and my wife asked if it was a toddler math worksheet. How the 'Pop' in Number Pop inspired a full-blown popcorn overhaul.
Detailed changelog from the September 17 launch to the latest balance patch. How we sealed the infinite loop with a progressive time decay formula and a 150-second cap.
We built an admin auto-play bot for testing, only to discover an infinite loop bug where the 90-second timer stayed completely full even past 226 points at LV.5 Master. Here is the actual capture and video footage.
I thought connecting numbers 1 through 5 would be a breeze, until an 8.5-second timer started flashing red in my face. An honest confession of getting humbled by a mini puzzle robot.
A practical first session: complete a route, read the refill, choose a mode and compare your records.