How to play Mineralium

Enjoy Lines 98, Color Lines and matching coloured balls? In Mineralium, you form lines of minerals, collect essence and descend into a mine. Start with five minerals of the same colour.

Your board: the essenciator

Form lines on a 9 × 9 board and make room for new minerals. Cleared minerals fill the flasks with essence of their colour.

Keep going and descend as far as you can. When the board fills up, your descent ends.

The essenciator: a nine-by-nine board and essence flasks — The board and flasks for collected essence.

Make a move. Match five

Select a mineral, then an empty cell.
Check the path: minerals move through free cells horizontally and vertically. The path can turn and go around other minerals.
Form an unbroken horizontal, vertical or diagonal line of five or more minerals of the same colour.

The line disappears, freeing cells and adding essence to the matching flask. In the diagrams, a gold outline marks the moving mineral and a dashed outline marks its destination.

A green mineral moves up into an empty cell to complete a straight line of five — One move completes a straight line.

A single straight line holds up to nine minerals. If a move completes several lines, you can clear more than nine at once. A mineral at an intersection disappears only once.

A blue mineral moves up into an empty cell to complete a diagonal line of five — Movement is horizontal and vertical. A completed line can be diagonal.

Look one move ahead

If you do not complete a line, new minerals appear — usually three.

Turn on the lantern to see their colours and future cells. Small preview minerals show what comes next; large minerals are already on the board.

The lit lantern and a board fragment showing full-size minerals beside three small preview minerals — The lantern reveals the upcoming minerals.

More depth, more colours

You begin with five mineral types. Three more are gradually introduced as you descend, bringing the palette to eight types.

Five mineral types at the start and eight types deeper in the mine — The palette grows as you descend.

A joker matches the colour you need

The rainbow geode is a joker mineral. It stands in for the colour needed to complete a line.

Move it into the empty cell between four red minerals to form a line of five.

A rainbow joker moves up between four red minerals to complete a line — The joker completes the red line.

One joker, two lines

Here the joker connects four red and four blue minerals. Nine minerals disappear, including the joker, and essence of both colours flows into the matching flasks.

Nine is the result in this example, not the limit for one move.

A joker moves up between four red and four blue minerals — The joker completes two lines of different colours.

Go deeper. Keep your finds

Your score shows the depth of your descent. Along the way, chests hold finds, including artifacts that unlock new possibilities. Read each acquired artifact’s card for details.

Full flasks and rewards are kept after your descent ends. Essence in unfinished flasks is not.

A wooden chest from the game — Find chests as you descend.

Your next personal best

Compete for depth in the Hall of Fame. Beat your personal best!

Play starts a new descent or resumes an unfinished one.

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The Hall of Fame trophy — How deep can you go?

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