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Arcade · plays in your browser, no download
Black tiles slide down four lanes, and each one you tap plays the next note of the tune. Ode to Joy, Für Elise, Jingle Bells: play the whole melody without a wrong note.
Where it comes from
Falling-note games go back to the rhythm boom of the late 1990s, when arcades filled with plastic guitars and dance mats. On phones the idea shrank to four lanes and a finger, and the piano version became one of the most played games of the 2010s. The melodies here are all in the public domain: Beethoven, Mozart-era nursery tunes and old folk songs.
How to play
- Black tiles slide down four lanes. Tap each one — in order — and it plays the next note of the tune.
- Tap anywhere in the tile’s lane while it is on screen. A tap in the wrong lane is a wrong note.
- A tile that reaches the bottom untouched is a missed note. Wrong and missed notes cost a heart.
What makes this one different
Every tile is a note, so a good run sounds like music and a wrong tap sounds wrong — the game tells you how you are doing without a single word. The tunes are the ones everybody already knows, which helps more than it seems: your fingers start guessing where the next tile will be.
Six tunes — Twinkle Twinkle, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Frère Jacques, Ode to Joy, Jingle Bells and Für Elise — played by a small piano built into the game. More stars means faster tunes and fewer hearts: three to start with, one at the top. Long tiles are held notes; gold tiles shine.