The Color Lines Blog

Two sides of the same game: the strategy that turns a quick five into a record-breaking combo, and the small pathfinding algorithm that quietly decides where every marble is allowed to move.

Strategy

How to Get a High Score in Color Lines

The free-turn rule, reading the preview, edge-building and crossing combos — the concrete habits that separate a 400 from a 4,000 in Lines 98.

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Inside the Game

How the Pathfinder Works: BFS Behind Every Move

Why a marble sometimes can't reach an empty square, how breadth-first search lights up every reachable cell, and how the same idea powers the Smart-Move hint.

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