Tesoro Blast

Deep in the rock, somewhere under all that rubble, the gems are already yours — provided you can take the cave apart without scratching a single one. That is the whole bargain of this blasting puzzle: the stone has to go, the treasure has to stay exactly as you found it.

Each cave arrives as a grid of rubble. You tap a cell to plant a blasting charge there, and when it goes off it clears the rock it covers in a fixed shape: a cross reaching out along the row and column, an X cutting away on the diagonals, or a ring opening up a neat circle of space around the centre. Learning the reach of each shape is most of the skill. A cross that looks perfectly placed may stretch one cell too far; a ring set a step to the left clears the same amount of stone and leaves the gem untouched.

The pressure comes from two directions at once. You are given only a few charges per cave, so every cell of rock must be accounted for before you begin — leftover rubble means the cave is not finished. And no blast may touch a gem. One careless detonation that clips a stone and the attempt is over, however tidy the rest of your work was. So the game rewards the quiet habit of tracing each shape in your head first, picturing the clearance, and only then committing to the tap.

There are 25 caves, and they grow as you descend. Early grids give you room to experiment and plenty of margin for a slightly imperfect placement. Later ones pack the gems closer together, thread them through the middle of the rubble, and hand you a charge count that allows for no waste at all. In those caves the order of your blasts starts to matter as much as their position, and the solution tends to hinge on one unexpected placement that opens everything else up.

It plays in short, self-contained bursts. A cave is a single idea you either see or you don't, and when it clicks the whole grid comes apart in a few satisfying taps. Good for a few minutes at a time, and quietly stubborn when a cave refuses to give up its gems — the kind of puzzle you put down mid-cave and solve properly an hour later, away from the screen.

No timers rushing your thinking, no penalty for staring at a grid for a while. Just rock, a handful of charges, and the sharp little pleasure of a cave cleared with the gems sitting untouched in the dust.

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Tesoro Blast