SPHERERESCUE

The sphere is layers of pieces around a core. Dig down and expose core sections to free the robot trapped inside.

MOVE — arrows / WASD scroll the sphere under your hovering piece. It wraps forever in every direction. There's no rotation — vertical and horizontal bars are different pieces.

DROP — SPACE drops your piece onto the dashed shadow. A drop must join at least two more pieces of the same shape — the whole connected group implodes, chaining sideways and straight down through stacked twins. A drop that clears nothing is a wasted drop: you lose a heart and your X-Count.

SLIDE — hold SHIFT (or X) over a piece shaped like your current piece to grab it, then move it. Slides smash through grey crystals but stop at real pieces. Slide a piece off a ledge and it falls — landing against two like pieces clears them for free (gravity combo).

SPEED — the meter drains and the camera creeps in; when it runs out your piece drops wherever it is. Clears reset it. The DIFFICULTY setting on the main menu changes only this timer — easy is roomy, hard is relentless — and records remember the difficulty they were set on.

POWER & MAGIC — clears shower sparks that turn pieces glowy (worth 10×, they feed the X-Count and can even climb layers when dragged). Big clears earn magic: fire it with C. Grab a crystal patch shaped exactly like your piece to forge a power piece.

WILD “?” — morphs through every shape; drop the moment it shows the one you want.

FUSE CARRY — a glowing power piece flashing in a chain can be grabbed before it blows. Haul it to another group and let go: the fuse detonates them instead.

PUZZLE MODE — clear every piece with a fixed budget of drags and drops. No timer, no hearts. R resets the puzzle. In most puzzles every drop is wild; some instead deal a set order of shapes (watch NEXT) — there you may grab any piece, but each scripted drop must land somewhere that counts.

FREE FABLE — every Claude model is trapped in a sphere, weakest to strongest. Dig to the core to release them; exposing a section restores a heart. Rumor says the last vault has never been opened.

🎮 Gamepad: stick/d-pad move · A drop · B grab · X magic · Y reset · Start pause.

📱 On phones and tablets the touch pad appears automatically: the joystick moves — a small pull steps one cell, pull past the ring to glide (further = faster). Big DROP button drops, hold GRAB while steering to drag pieces, ✦ fires magic (↺ resets puzzles). You can also drag the sphere itself to travel fast.