Mochi Glide

About Mochi Glide

Mochi Glide is an ice-slide puzzle in the classic frozen-floor tradition: you never steer the mochi cell by cell. Swipe up, down, left, or right and the little blob shoots off in that direction, gliding in a dead-straight line until something stops it - a sleepy wall cushion, the edge of the tray, or a soft pink bumper pad. It cannot turn or brake in the middle of a glide, so the whole puzzle is reading the ice ahead of time and picking the line that ends exactly where you want. Land on the glowing star goal to clear the level.

Some boards scatter faceted gems across the ice. The mochi vacuums up every gem it slides over, and the level will not finish until you have collected the lot AND come to rest on the goal - so the HUD shows a gem counter (like 2/3) whenever gems are in play. A swipe counter on the clear card tells you how few flicks it took ("Glided home in 4 swipes!"), though clearing always earns the full three stars regardless of how long you took.

The 20 hand-built levels are split into five themed worlds that each introduce one new ice trick, so the slide stays fresh as the grids grow from a cosy 5x5 up to 8x8. Berry is pure ice and wall cushions; Citrus adds gems to collect; Mint adds stop pads (a bumper that halts the glide right on that tile); Ocean adds arrow tiles that bend a slide around a corner mid-flight; and Galaxy adds portal pairs that swallow the mochi at one swirl and spit it out of its twin still travelling the same way. Every board is generated from a real solution and re-checked, so a tidy way home is always guaranteed - you can never be permanently stranded.

Finish the curated set and Endless mode opens up, where fresh "Puzzle" boards are generated forever. Endless has all five mechanics on from its very first board and ramps from there - grids climb toward 10x10, and the move count, gem count, walls, stop pads, arrows and portals all grow with the level number, so the challenge keeps deepening for as long as you keep sliding.

How to play Mochi Glide

1. Swipe a direction on the board (or press an arrow key / WASD) to send the mochi sliding that way.
2. The mochi glides in a straight line and only stops when it hits a wall cushion, the edge of the tray, or a stop pad - it always settles in the last free cell.
3. If gems are on the ice, slide over each one to vacuum it up; watch the gem counter and collect them all before you can finish.
4. In Ocean, sliding onto an arrow tile bends your glide to the arrow's heading; in Galaxy, a portal swirl pops you out of its twin still travelling the same way.
5. Bring the mochi to rest on the glowing star goal with every gem collected to clear the level and earn three stars.
6. Slipped somewhere awkward? Tap the dashed home ring where you started to teleport back (keeping gem progress), or use the restart button to reset the whole board.
7. Clear all 20 levels across the five worlds to unlock Endless mode and its never-ending stream of fresh ice puzzles.

Controls

Tips & strategy

• Plan the whole line before you flick - the mochi cannot stop or turn part-way, so trace where each slide will actually halt before committing.
• Wall cushions and the tray edge are your only brakes. Use them to park the mochi on an exact cell instead of overshooting it.
• When collecting gems, hunt for one long line that sweeps several at once rather than chasing each gem with a separate swipe.
• Stop pads (the pink bumpers in Mint onward) halt you right on the pad, so treat them as a way to stop short in the middle of an open lane.
• On Ocean's arrow tiles, picture the bend before you go - one swipe can corner clear across the board, which is great for setting up the next move.
• Galaxy's portal pairs keep your direction and speed: enter one swirl and you emerge from its twin still gliding the same way, often skipping a whole row.
• If a slide boxes you in, tap the dashed home ring to teleport back - it keeps the gems you already grabbed, unlike the full restart button.

Game features

• An ice-slide puzzle where one flick sends the mochi gliding until a wall cushion, the tray edge, or a stop pad halts it.
• 20 hand-built levels across five themed worlds - Berry, Citrus, Mint, Ocean, and Galaxy - with grids growing from 5x5 to 8x8.
• Five layered mechanics, one per world: wall cushions, collectible gems, stop pads, slide-bending arrow tiles, and travelling portal pairs.
• Gem-collection boards with a live counter - vacuum every gem, then park on the star goal to win.
• Endless mode with all five mechanics on from board one, ramping grids toward 10x10 and steadily more gems, walls, arrows and portals.
• Every puzzle is generated from a verified solution and re-simulated, so a way home is always guaranteed and you can never get stuck.
• A tap-the-home-ring teleport that keeps your gem progress, plus a one-touch full restart for clean do-overs.
• A gentle hint hand that bobs toward home if you wander off and idle, or after a few slides that collect nothing, so younger players are never lost.
• Three-star clears, saved progress, and unlocked worlds stored privately on your own device, with looping background music and synthesized chime-and-swoosh sound.
• Plays instantly in the browser on phone, tablet, and desktop - touch-first, no download, no account.

One Flick, Then You Watch

What sells Mochi Glide is the half-second after you flick. The blob does not step tile by tile the way most grid puzzles do; it commits, stretches a little along its line of travel, drags a short glowing wake, swings its eyes toward wherever it is headed, and refuses to stop until a wall cushion, the tray rim, or a pink stop pad physically catches it. You stop steering and start aiming. The reward is a clean swoosh and a small landing squish when the mochi parks on the cell you pictured, which is why the whole thing reads less like a sliding-block puzzle and more like lining up a cushion shot.

The thinking it asks for is honest because the boards cannot lie to you. Every layout is grown backward from a random billiard walk, then re-run through the exact slide function live play uses, and a seed that fails to collect every gem and land on the goal is simply thrown out. So there is always a real route home, and since nothing on the ice is destructive you can never permanently wedge yourself. That guarantee is what frees you to just try a line and see where it ends. The five worlds add one idea apiece, so by Galaxy you are reading walls, gems, stop pads, arrow corners and portals as separate reflexes.

Where Glide quietly looks after a stuck or younger player is the home ring. Drift off your dashed start pad, sit idle a few seconds, or rattle off eight swipes that pick up nothing, and a soft pointing mochi finger bobs back toward the pad instead of any block of text. Tap that ring and you teleport home with every gem you already swept still banked, so a botched line costs a re-plan and not the run. The clear card even counts your flicks, Glided home in four swipes, though that is flavour, not a score; clearing always earns the full three stars no matter how long you dithered.

On difficulty, the curated twenty are a relaxed climb from cosy five-by-five rooms to busy eight-by-eight trays, four levels to a world, the sort of ramp you finish in one sitting. The real teeth are in Endless, which opens past the finale and starts roughly where that finale left off rather than resetting to easy. Every mechanic is live from its first board, and grids creep toward ten-by-ten while gems, walls, stop pads, arrows and portals all scale with the level number. It never spikes meanly. It just keeps asking you to read one slide further ahead, which is the exact pleasure the whole game is built around.