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Three Pieces
You always know the full tray in advance, so strong play comes from planning the whole sequence, not just the first placement.
ZooBlocks starts with a simple puzzle loop: place animal blocks, clear lines, and pop matching groups. As you keep playing, every point turns into diamonds, diamonds feed your zoo, and your zoo makes future puzzle rewards stronger.
Each turn gives you three pieces in the tray. Tap or drag a piece onto the board and place it only on empty cells. Once all three pieces are used, the tray refills with three more.
If none of the remaining tray pieces can fit anywhere on the board, the run ends. That makes space management the first skill every player needs.
You always know the full tray in advance, so strong play comes from planning the whole sequence, not just the first placement.
Every square of the piece must land on open cells. There is no overlap and no partial fit.
The round stops as soon as the board can no longer accept any of the pieces still in your tray.
Fill every cell in a row or column and that line disappears. Clear multiple lines at once and the line-clear value doubles with each extra line.
Connect three or more animals of the same type horizontally or vertically and they pop, but only when the new piece links into older matching animals already on the board.
The strongest moves resolve both systems together. When one placement completes a line and triggers a valid animal pop, the move becomes dramatically more valuable.
Puzzle score converts directly into diamonds. Those diamonds are the currency for the zoo tab, where you unlock animals and upgrade their production.
Each owned animal generates diamonds every second while the game is open. As your zoo gets stronger, the puzzle multiplier improves too, so later runs pay far more than early ones.
Better line clears and overlap turns raise your immediate reward.
Points become diamonds, which means every better run speeds up your long-term progress.
Animal income boosts future puzzle rewards, creating one connected progression loop.
Each level asks for a different mix of objectives such as rows, columns, score, combos, or animal pops. These goals keep puzzle play focused even as the board grows larger.
Once the zoo system is active, daily challenges add a second layer of progression. Completing all three daily tasks earns a larger diamond reward and helps keep short sessions useful.
Once you understand how puzzle score, diamonds, and zoo progression connect, ZooBlocks becomes much easier to optimize.