Mochi Pegs

About Mochi Pegs

Mochi Pegs is a Peggle-style aim-and-bounce puzzle. A field of round candy pegs hangs in the middle of the screen, and a smiling little mochi cannon sits at the top. You drag to swing the cannon downward, and a dotted bead trail previews the start of the shot - it actually simulates gravity and the two side walls, stopping with a white ring drawn on the very first peg the ball would strike, so you can see exactly where a shot begins before you commit. Let go and one bouncy ball drops, ricocheting off pegs and walls and lighting up every peg it grazes.

Only the bright, pulsing pegs are your real targets. On each board a handful of pegs glow in the world's accent color (pink in Berry, orange in Citrus, and so on) while the rest are plain - and you win the instant the last glowing goal peg lights up, even mid-flight. Every peg you light pops away in a burst of sparkles about two seconds later, so the board keeps clearing and opening fresh lanes even while the ball is still bouncing. You only carry a small stock of balls, drawn as little dots beside the cannon, so each level is really a question of finding the angle that chains through the most goal pegs at once.

The safety net is a sleepy-faced basket that drifts left and right along the very bottom. Drop a falling ball into it and that shot is refunded straight back to your stock, which can stretch a tight ball count across a stubborn board. Because every peg you touch raises an in-shot combo - and each peg's chime is pitched higher than the last, with goal pegs adding a sparkling harmonic on top - a single ball that rattles through a whole cluster both clears the board faster and sounds genuinely satisfying.

Every board is laid out as one pretty, mirror-symmetric shape - concentric rings, a diamond, a pyramid, nested chevrons or rainbow arches, a column skyline, or a cute heart, star or flower - sized by that level's peg count. There are 20 hand-tuned levels grouped into five themed worlds - Berry, Citrus, Mint, Ocean and Galaxy - each with its own gradient sky over a cute backdrop of a soft polka-dot peg lattice and drifting blushing mochi balls. The early Berry boards are sparse and hand you ten balls to learn the bounce; by Galaxy the pegs are packed tight and you are down to eight. Past level 20 an Endless mode generates a fresh shaped board every time and slowly raises the peg and goal counts as you climb. Finishing any level always awards three stars, and retrying costs nothing, so it stays friendly for younger players while still rewarding a clean bank shot.

How to play Mochi Pegs

1. Drag anywhere on the screen to swing the mochi cannon. It only aims downward, and the dotted bead trail shows the opening arc with a white ring on the first peg the ball would meet.
2. Release to fire your one ball. It falls under gravity, bounces off the left and right walls and off pegs, and lights up every peg it touches along the way.
3. Light up all the glowing goal pegs - the board is won the moment the last glowing peg lights, even while the ball is still bouncing.
4. Pegs you light pop away on their own about two seconds later; line up your next shot through the gaps they open up.
5. Aim a falling ball into the wandering basket at the bottom to refund the shot and get the ball back when your stock is running low.
6. Clear the board to earn three stars, then tap Next for the following level, or open the level menu to jump to another world or into Endless.

Controls

Tips & strategy

• Read the dotted preview's white ring before you let go - it marks the exact peg the ball hits first, which decides everything that happens after.
• Hunt for tight clusters of glowing pegs. A ball that gets trapped rattling inside a group can pop several goal pegs on one shot.
• Bounce off the side walls on purpose. A ricochet from the left or right edge can curl the ball into glowing pegs you cannot reach in a straight drop.
• A longer ricochet pitches each peg's chime higher, so the shots that sound best are usually the ones clearing the most pegs - chase the long combos.
• Watch the basket's sweep and fire so the ball comes down over it; catching the ball refunds that shot and keeps your stock high on the denser later boards.
• A peg you light lingers for about two seconds before it pops, so the ball can still bounce off a peg it just lit - but plan for those pegs clearing out from under a long shot.
• When only one or two glowing pegs remain, forget the plain pegs and take the cleanest line straight to them rather than a fancy multi-bounce.
• Retrying a level is always free with the full ball stock, so try the bold bank shot - a miss costs nothing.

Game features

• Peggle-style aim-and-bounce gameplay with a smiling mochi cannon firing a single bouncy ball through a field of candy pegs.
• A dotted preview that truly simulates gravity and the side walls, ending with a white ring on the first peg the shot would strike.
• Glowing goal pegs you must clear versus plain pegs that just steer the ball - win the instant the last goal peg lights, even mid-bounce.
• 20 hand-tuned levels across five themed worlds: Berry, Citrus, Mint, Ocean and Galaxy, each with its own sky and drifting backdrop.
• A difficulty ramp from sparse 26-peg Berry boards with ten balls to packed 48-peg Galaxy boards with eight.
• Every board laid out as one pretty, mirror-symmetric shape - concentric rings, a diamond, a pyramid, chevrons, rainbow arches, a column skyline, or a cute heart, star or flower - with goal pegs spread out by farthest-point sampling.
• A wandering sleepy basket that refunds your ball when you drop a shot into it.
• An Endless mode beyond level 20 that mixes every shape from the start and slowly raises peg and goal counts on each fresh board.
• Looping background music plus combo-pitched pop chimes, sparkle bursts, screen shake and a five-note win fanfare, all synthesized in the browser with a mute toggle.
• Three stars on every clear, free retries, and your unlocked levels saved automatically on your own device.
• Plays instantly on phone, tablet and desktop with one finger - no download, no account.

Fire Freely, Let The Balls Collide

Most aim-and-bounce games hand you a stingy little stub of a guide line and call the rest fate. Mochi Pegs does the opposite, and that generosity reshapes how you think. The dotted bead trail runs the exact integrator the live ball uses, so it curves under gravity, caroms off the side walls, and ricochets through pegs for nearly three full seconds of simulated flight before it fades. A white ring flags the first peg it meets, but the whole zigzag downstream is visible too. You are not guessing at physics here, you are reading a printout of it, then deciding whether that printed path is worth taking.

The twist that keeps it from feeling solved is free fire. You never wait for a ball to finish, so you can launch a second and third into the field while the first is still rattling, and they genuinely clack off each other with real restitution. That preview line only plots one ball in a vacuum, so the moment two are in play the printout stops being gospel. A live collision can knock a stray drop sideways into a goal peg no single arc could reach. On the packed Galaxy boards, where a clean lane simply does not exist, seeding the field with two or three balls and letting the chaos compound is often the only way through.

Progression here is shape progression, which is why the eye never glazes over even after the bounce math feels automatic. Every board is one mirror-symmetric figure sized to its peg count, rebuilt from its left half so the symmetry is exact, and the generator rotates through concentric rings, a diamond lattice, a pyramid, nested chevrons, rainbow arches, a column skyline, and literal hearts, stars and flowers. Goal pegs scatter across the figure by farthest-point sampling so they never bunch. Each of the five worlds swaps the gradient sky over a cute backdrop of a soft polka-dot peg lattice and drifting blushing mochi balls, and a lit peg lingers two seconds before popping, so the board keeps opening fresh lanes mid-shot.

It is unusually gentle on a small player without feeling toothless. Idle for five seconds or whiff four shots that touch no goal peg, and a bobbing finger simulates the field and parks above one reachable goal peg, never the whole answer, just a productive aim to try. The sleepy basket sweeping the floor refunds any ball you drop into it, retries cost nothing and restore the full stock, and every clear awards three stars flat. The depth lives elsewhere, in the way each peg in a single ricochet pitches its chime a step higher, turning a long combo into a climbing little melody you start chasing as hard as the clear itself.