Pocket Drill
About This Game
A 5×7 rock wall is packed with four kinds of ore — diamond, gold, silver and star crystal — each with its own shade and bold symbol in retro four-shade pixels. Tap an ore that touches the same kind up, down, left or right, and the whole group is mined at once. The ore above drops straight down, and fresh ore fills in from the top.
Scoring is easy to count: every ore is worth 1 point, but in a group of four or more each ore is worth 2, and in a group of six or more each is worth 3. So 2 ores make 2, 4 make 8, 6 make 18 and 8 make 24. When falling ore joins pieces of fewer than four into a new vein of four or more, that vein mines itself as a chain and scores the same way — free points without a tap. A vein that was already four or bigger just grows when ore lands on it and waits for your tap.
You have 40 seconds from your first mine, and the clock keeps running while ore falls. After the first 10 seconds you start drilling into deeper rock: fresh ore comes in more and more mixed, so big groups get harder to find. Each run deals a new random board with at least one group of four or more. Tapping a lone ore mines nothing — once the clock is running, it jams your drill for a moment.
Game Tips
- 💎 A group of 6 scores 18, but a 4 and a 2 only make 10. Let a big vein grow before you mine it.
- ⛓️ Mine the blocker above a 3-vein so a matching ore drops onto it: the new 4-vein mines itself as a chain for 8 more points.
- ⏱️ You can tap while ore is still falling. One tap is saved and fires the moment the board settles.
Controls
- Tap a group of 2+ matching ores : mine the whole group
- ← ↑ → ↓ / W A S D : move the cursor
- Space / Enter : mine the group under the cursor
- ※ The 40-second clock starts with your first mine.
- ※ After that, tapping a single ore jams the drill for 0.5 s. Keep tapping and it stays jammed, up to 1.2 s.
Game info
- Players
- 1 player
- Developer
- PLAYMINIT — original game, made in-house
- Released
- 2026.10.07
- Last updated
- 2026.10.16
- Version
- v1.3
- Scoring
- pts · Higher is better
- Monthly ranking
- Supported
- Controls
- Touch · Keyboard
Dev Log
- v1.3
Pixel wallpaper
- Soft pixel pattern of tiny gems behind the board
- The pattern fills the whole screen on any device
- v1.2
Simpler scores
- 1 point per ore, 2 each in groups of 4+, 3 each in 6+
- Runs last 40 seconds, and the rock gets tougher after 10
- Fixed taps on falling ore and a slow clock on laggy devices
- v1.1
Wide screen fix
- Smaller pixels on desktop screens, with the board centered
Earlier versions (1)
- v1.0
First release
- Mine matching ore veins and set off falling chains in 20 seconds
- Bigger veins and chain reactions score more
