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+# Goal
+
+The goal is to catch as many coins as possible during 7 levels. 
+Coins appear when you break bricks.
+They fly around, bounce and roll, and you need to catch them with your puck to increase your score. 
+Your score is displayed in the top right corner of the screen.
+You must delete all bricks to progress to the next level. 
+If you drop the ball, it's game over, unless you had the "extra life" upgrade.
+
+# Upgrades 
+
+After clearing a level, you'll be able to pick upgrades among a small selection presented to you. 
+The upgrade you pick will apply until the end of the run. You will get more upgrade choices, and even the ability to pick
+multiple upgrades at the end of the level if you play well : catch all coins, clear the level quickly and never miss.
+You also get a free random upgrade at the beginning of each run. You can see which upgrades you have
+(and a few more details) by clicking your score at the top right of the screen.
+
+Upgrades apply to the whole run and can synergize. For example, if you combine "sapper" and "piercing", the first brick 
+you hit after a puck bounce will immediately be transformed to an explosive brick, and detonated by the same ball, 
+effectively giving you an explosive ball.  
+
+Some upgrades help with aiming, like "puck control balls". Some upgrades can be picked multiple times to increase the effect, you'll see for example "+1 ball level 2" which adds a third ball.
+
+When you first play, only a few upgrades are available, you unlock the rest by simply playing and scoring points. There's a similar 
+mechanic for levels unlock. At the end of a run, the things you just unlocked will be shown, and you can check the full content in menu / unlocks.
+
+Many upgrades impact your combo. 
+
+# Combo
+
+Your "combo" is the number of coins spawned when a brick breaks. It is displayed on your puck, for example x4 means each
+brick will spawn 4 coins. It will reset if you miss. 
+
+Many upgrades impact your combo :
+
+### Single puck hit streak
+
+The combo grows by one when breaking a brick, but resets when a ball hits the puck. 
+Once you combo is high, the puck will glow red, to remind you that it will hurt your combo to touch it with any ball. 
+The combo does not reset when the ball is lost, provided you have more than one ball.
+
+### +3 base combo
+
+The combo starts at 4, and resets to 4 if another upgrade resets it. 
+Picking this again will raise the starting combo by 3 each time. 
+There are no downsides to this upgrade.
+
+### Shoot straight
+
+The combo grow each time you break a brick. 
+The combo resets whenever the ball touches the left or right of the play area. 
+Once your combo is a bit high, the sides will glow red to let you know you shouldn't touch them.
+
+### Sky is the limit
+
+The combo grow each time you break a brick. 
+The combo resets whenever the ball touches the top of the play area. 
+Once your combo is a bit high, the top will glow red to let you know you shouldn't touch it.
+
+### Picky eater
+
+Each time you break a brick, if the ball and brick color are the same, your combo grows by one. 
+Otherwise, the combo resets, and the ball takes the color of the brick. 
+Bricks of the wrong colors should glow red once you have a small combo going.
+
+
+### Compound interest
+
+Each time you break a brick, your combo grows by one. 
+Each time a coin falls around your puck and is lost, your combo decreases by one.
+Once you have a small combo going, the bottom of the screen will glow red around the puck, to remind you to catch all coins.
+If you level this further, then the combo grows and shrinks faster.
+
+
+### Hot start
+
+Your combo starts at 15 at the beginning of the level. 
+Every second, it decreases by one. 
+If you level this further, the combo starts 15 points higher and shrinks 1 point / s more.
+
+
+### Soft reset
+
+Whenever your combo resets, it only looses half of its value. 
+However, whenever it should increase, it has 50% chance of staying the same. 
+If you pick it a second time, the effect is more pronounced : the combo keeps 66% of its value on reset, but only grows 33% of the time.
+If you have many perks that grow the combo every time a brick breaks, then it will still grow every time just slower.
+
+# Longer runs
+
+The default run lasts 7 levels. The selection process is to pick those levels at random, then sort them (more or less) by 
+number of bricks present, so that runs start with smaller levels and the bigger ones are left for the end. You can extend
+the run by picking up to three times the "+1 level" upgrade.
+
+"Sturdy bricks" and "Respawn" can also extend the game time significantly.
+
+# Aiming
+
+What decides how the ball flies away is only the position of the puck hit. If the ball hits the puck dead center, it will
+bounce back up vertically, while in you hit more on one side, it will have more angle. 
+The puck speed and incoming angle have no impact on the ball direction after bouncing.
+You might find that a smaller puck makes it a bit easier to aim near corners, but also makes it much harder to catch coins.
+"Wind" and "puck controls ball" can help you aim even after the ball bounced to the wrong direction.
+"Slower ball" gives you a bit more time to aim, particularly useful in later levels where the ball goes faster. The ball also
+accelerates as you spend time in each level. 
+
+# Requirements 
+
+The app should work offline and perform well even on low-end devices. 
+It's very lean and does not take much storage space (Roughly 0.1MB).
+If the app stutters, turn on "fast mode" in the settings to render a simplified view that should be faster.
+There's also an easy mode for kids (slower ball) and a color-blind mode (no color related game mechanics).