GameLake Block Puzzle: Clear Rows, Columns and Squares

A short wooden bar can complete a row, but the same space might be the only home for the awkward corner waiting beside it. GameLake’s Block Puzzle turns that choice into a calm placement challenge on a nine-by-nine lily-pond board. Drag connected blocks into empty cells and make complete rows, columns or three-by-three squares disappear. The extra square-clearing rule gives you another way to reopen a crowded board instead of depending on a single long line. Three pieces arrive together beneath the board. Their orientations are fixed, so compare every outline before spending a useful opening. After you place all three, the tray fills again. Small isolated holes can be harder to use than one generous gap, even when the number of empty cells is the same. Look for placements that prepare a clear while keeping connected space for the pieces you have not used. The hosted game offers Easy, Medium, Hard and Daily choices, with Score and Best above the pond. Its Teach me control offers placement guidance, while New game lets you try a fresh opening. The Daily mode uses a shared piece sequence rather than a randomly chosen set for each player. This page hosts GameLake’s version, separate from the Card Game Nook Block Puzzle elsewhere on this site. The cover is an original illustration of the grid-and-shape idea, not a screenshot.