Flood It
Flood the whole board into a single color within a tight move limit by repeatedly recoloring your growing top-left region.
About Flood It
Flood It is a calm-but-cunning color puzzle. You command the tile in the top-left corner, and every turn you repaint your whole region a new color — swallowing every matching neighbor it touches and steadily spreading across the grid. The catch is a strict move budget that scales with board size, so flooding the most cells right now is rarely the same as winning. Greedy grabs feel great early but leave scattered pockets that cost you the game; the real skill is reading the board several moves ahead and choosing colors that knit the whole thing together. With three board sizes, six clearly distinguished colors (each marked with its own symbol for colorblind players), and a per-size best-score chase, it rewards both quick sessions and obsessive optimization.
How to play Flood It
Your region starts as just the top-left tile. Pick a color and your entire region floods to that color, absorbing any connected tiles that already match it. Keep choosing colors to grow your region until the whole board is one single color before you run out of moves.
Controls
Mouse/touch: tap a color button to flood. Keyboard: number keys 1-6 pick a color, Left/Right arrows move the picker and Enter/Space floods, N starts a new game, M toggles mute.
Tips & tricks
- Don't just chase the biggest single grab — the color that absorbs the most cells this turn often leaves awkward pockets that cost you later.
- Look one or two moves ahead: pick a color now that sets up an even bigger flood on your next turn.
- Push toward whichever edge or corner has the largest untouched cluster so you don't strand isolated patches.
- Late game, count the colors still bordering your region and sweep them in an order that finishes the board in the fewest repaints.
- Use the symbols on each tile, not just the hue, to spot connected runs you might otherwise miss.
Frequently asked questions
How do you play Flood It?
Your region starts as just the top-left tile. Pick a color and your entire region floods to that color, absorbing any connected tiles that already match it. Keep choosing colors to grow your region until the whole board is one single color before you run out of moves.
What are the controls for Flood It?
Mouse/touch: tap a color button to flood. Keyboard: number keys 1-6 pick a color, Left/Right arrows move the picker and Enter/Space floods, N starts a new game, M toggles mute.
Is Flood It free to play online?
Totally free. You can play Flood It in the browser without paying, downloading or signing up for anything.
Can I play Flood It on mobile?
Yes. Flood It works in any modern mobile browser with full touch support, so it plays on phones and tablets as well as on a laptop or desktop — nothing to install.
Who made Flood It?
Flood It was built in-house by the GameStudioHub team using open web technology (HTML5), which is why it runs instantly without any download.
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