Quark Forge

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How it plays

• Touch Drag to slide, tap to rotate, swipe down to drop. No clutter of buttons.
• Chains Orbs that fall into new groups pop again, and every chain step multiplies the score.
• Forge Pops fill the Forge meter to earn boosters for tricky spots.
• Levels 80 levels across eight worlds, then an endless Deep Field.
• Daily A new chamber every day, with a streak to keep alive.
• Colour Colour-blind friendly: every colour has its own crystal shape.
• Offline Plays anywhere. Free, with an optional one-time purchase to remove ads.

The physics behind it

• Colour charge

  Connect three or more of one colour to pop them.

  Quarks really do carry a “colour charge”. It’s the property the strong force acts on.

• Charged orbs

  Pop exactly four and a charged orb is left behind. Pop it later and it blasts everything around it.

  An excited state holds extra energy and releases it all at once when it decays.

• Gluons

  Pop five or more and a rainbow gluon appears. It joins any group, and takes every orb of that colour with it.

  Gluons carry the strong force between quarks. They’re what holds protons together.

• W orbs

  A W orb recolours every orb it touches to its own colour. Drop it between mismatched orbs to build instant groups.

  The weak force is the only force that can change a quark’s flavour, turning one kind of quark into another.

• Quark-gluon plasma

  Chains charge the plasma meter. When it fills, the next drops go white-hot and pop everything they touch.

  For a few microseconds after the Big Bang, the whole universe was a quark-gluon plasma.

• Unstable crates

  A countdown ticks with every drop. Break the crate in time or it decays into stones.

  Unstable particles like muons live only a tiny fraction of a second before they decay.

• Antimatter

  Dark anti-orbs never match. Pop their own colour next to them and they annihilate in a blast.

  When matter meets its antimatter twin, both annihilate into pure energy.

• Gluon strings

  Some orbs are bound by a glowing string. Pop one and its partner pops too, wherever it is.

  Quarks are never found alone: pull two apart and the string between them just makes new quarks.

• Neutrino beam

  Pop six or more at once and a beam fires straight through the column, clearing everything in it.

  Neutrinos barely interact with matter: trillions pass straight through you every second.

• Baryon crates

  These need red, green and blue popped beside them. Only a colour-neutral trio breaks them.

  Protons and neutrons are baryons: three quarks whose colours cancel out to white.

• Higgs field

  Inside a glowing field, orbs gain mass and stick where they land. Pop anything inside it to let everything fall.

  Elementary particles get their mass from the Higgs field: the more they interact with it, the heavier they are.