Mochi Pull

About Mochi Pull

Mochi Pull is a pull-the-pin physics puzzle drawn as a cutaway of a candy mountain. The whole contraption fits one portrait screen - no scrolling, everything visible at once. Rounded pastel-rock chambers hold pockets of gold sand, blue water, orange lava and green slime, and steel pins with candy-ball heads seal the gaps between them. At the bottom sits Mo, a round pink mochi with an open bowl and enormous hopeful eyes.

Tap a pin's candy head and it slides out; whatever it was holding back falls under real granular gravity. Gold pours down through the opened shafts and piles into slopes like an hourglass; every nugget that lands in Mo's bowl is gulped with a pitch-rising chomp, and a golden fill-ring around the bowl creeps toward your quota. That is the entire game: figure out which pins to pull, and in what order, so the treasure reaches the bowl instead of the hazards.

The hazards are characters. Gurgle the lava blob burns any gold it touches, so never open a path that lets it reach the treasure first. Water is the fixer - pour it onto lava and both freeze into safe grey rock you can pour gold across. Slorp the slime dissolves gold slowly, so it can be raced or rinsed away with water. Pica the magpie swoops on gold you release and leave sitting, so keep it moving to the bowl. Later boards add padlocked pins that need a falling key, spring pins that snap back after a moment, and rotating chambers that carry their contents around.

There are 20 hand-tuned boards that cycle five pastel palettes and ramp from two-pin freebies to a nine-pin graduation exam combining every mechanic. Three hearts guard each board: a heart cracks only when a board becomes catastrophic - lava reaches the bowl, or too much gold has been destroyed to still make quota - and the board instantly rewinds for a free retry. Clear all 20 and Endless mode opens: generated mountains that start at the final board's difficulty and keep climbing, with every mechanic active from the very first endless level. There is no timer and no score, and finishing any board always lights all three stars.

How to play Mochi Pull

1. Look at the mountain first - trace where each pocket of gold would fall if its pin came out.
2. Tap a pin's round candy-ball head to yank it: the pin slides out and whatever it held drops instantly.
3. Guide the gold down through the chambers so it rains into the mochi's bowl at the bottom.
4. Watch the golden ring around the bowl fill up - that is your quota; fill it to win the board.
5. Keep gold away from Gurgle the lava (it burns treasure) - or pour water onto the lava first to freeze it into safe rock.
6. If a pin has a padlock, drop its key in first; if it has a spring, it snaps back, so line up your pour before you pull.
7. Made a mess? A heart cracks and the board instantly rewinds - just try a different order.

Controls

Tips & strategy

• Pull the gold pins that drop straight into the bowl first - clear the easy treasure before you touch anything risky.
• Lava burns gold on contact. If lava sits above or beside the treasure's path, deal with it before you release the gold.
• Water freezes lava into rock. Pour the water pocket onto Gurgle first, then pour your gold across the new grey rock.
• Every board pours far more gold than the quota needs, so losing a little to slime or the magpie is never the end of a run.
• Slorp the slime only eats gold slowly - you can often race gold past it, or rinse it away with a splash of water.
• Released gold left sitting in the open draws Pica the magpie. Keep the treasure moving down to the bowl and she gets nothing.
• A spring pin snaps back after a moment, so it only opens a short window - have the gold ready to pour before you pull it.
• Nothing on the board moves until your very first tap. Take your time reading the plumbing before you commit.

Game features

• One-tap play: the whole game is tapping a pin, so a pre-reader can master it while adults chase the deeper ordering logic.
• A real granular-sand physics engine: gold pours and piles like an hourglass, water spreads, lava oozes and slime creeps.
• Hazards with real personalities: Gurgle the lava burns gold, Slorp the slime licks it away, and Pica the magpie steals it.
• Water is the fixer - pour it onto lava and both freeze into warm grey rock you can then pour gold across.
• Staged mechanics: lava from board 4, quenching from 6, slime from 9, keys and padlocks from 12, the magpie from 14, spring pins from 16, and rotating chambers from 18.
• 20 hand-tuned boards cycling five pastel palettes, ramping from two-pin freebies to a nine-pin graduation exam that combines everything.
• Endless mode past board 20: generated mountains with every mechanic on from the first one, ramping harder the further you go.
• Three hearts and an instant-rewind soft-fail - a mistake costs one heart and two seconds, never a wedged, unwinnable board.
• A golden fill-ring right on the mochi's bowl is your only quota meter - no score, no combo, no timer, just treasure in the bowl.
• Synthesized sound throughout: the pin shink, granular gold-rain, a quench hiss, Gurgle's gurgle, the magpie's tweets and Mo's rising gulps.

One Tap, A Whole Mountain of Consequence

Mochi Pull is an ant-farm cutaway of a candy mountain, and the entire game is a single verb: tap a pin. Rounded pastel-rock chambers hold pockets of glittering gold sand, cool blue water, a grumpy lava blob and creeping green slime, and sealed between them are steel pins with big round candy heads poking out of the rock. Tap a head and it slides out with a satisfying shink; whatever it was holding back obeys gravity instantly. Gold rains down through the opened shafts, water pours and spreads, lava oozes after everything with murder in its eyebrows. At the bottom a round pink mochi gulps every nugget that reaches its bowl, cheeks puffing, a golden fill-ring creeping toward full. That is the whole game - read the plumbing, tap the pins in the right order, and watch a one-tap avalanche of cause-and-effect either fill the bowl or go hilariously, instantly wrong.

The verb never changes, but the question each tap asks does. Early boards are two-pin freebies where any order works and the joy is pure gold-rain. Then Gurgle the lava blob arrives and order starts to matter: pull the treasure pin while lava overhangs the shaft and the gold burns in a puff of ash right in front of you - a failure so fast and so legible that it is the tutorial. Water flips the logic again, because pouring it onto lava freezes both into safe new rock you can pour gold across. Slime adds slow creeping pressure, keys make some pins unpullable until a physical key has fallen into its padlock, spring pins snap back and turn one tap into a timed window, and rotating chambers ferry their contents around like a ferris wheel so even the moment of a tap matters.

Crucially, nothing on the board is ever at risk until you pull. No threat moves and no timer runs until your first tap, so there is never pressure to act - only consequences of acting. And the design carries one iron promise: pulling every pin, in any order, always eventually routes every surviving nugget to the bowl. Order never decides whether gold can reach the mochi, only how much of it survives the trip. So you can never wedge the board into a stuck state; the only failure is destruction, and destruction is watched by a heart-and-instant-reset system that turns every mistake into a free two-second do-over. Every board pours surplus gold, too, so small losses to slime or a thieving magpie never doom a run.

Twenty curated boards stretch tap-a-pin from a toddler's first gold-rain to genuine multi-stage ordering logic an adult has to actually think about, and each punishment is a character doing something in-character - Gurgle the lava burns, Slorp the slime licks, Pica the magpie steals, always with a face, a telegraph and a silly sound. Clear all twenty and Endless opens: generated mountains that start at the final board's difficulty and keep ramping, with every mechanic live from the first endless level and a new seeded layout every time. There is no score, no timer and no way to dead-end - finishing any board always lights all three stars, because the celebration is for the avalanche, not the speed.