Swaps are precious
You get 25 per dive. A swap that produces no line is refunded automatically and the tokens drift back into place.
Reef Deck/Dive Pools
Playable nowDive Pools
Every pool in the reef runs on Glow Pearls and nothing else. Open a dive, chase a cascade, close the tab whenever you like — the tokens stay in the water either way.
Main pool
Tide Pool Cascade
An eight-by-eight match-three engine written for this reef. Swap two neighbouring tokens, form a line of three or more, and let gravity trigger the chain. Each cascade layer boosts the release by 55%.
Mechanics breakdown
Reading the board
Four things worth knowing before your first dive.
Cascades stack
When cleared tokens collapse into a fresh line, the next layer pays 55% more than the one before it. Deep chains are where the Pearls are.
Long lines add bonuses
Four in a row adds 40 Pearls on top of the per-token release. Five or more adds 110.
The pool never locks
If no workable swap remains, the reef reshuffles itself at no cost. You never lose a dive to a dead board.
The rest of the reef
Pools in the current
Simulations we are shaping next. All of them will follow the same rules: free entry, virtual tokens, nothing exchangeable.
Live
Tide Pool Cascade
Match-three with gravity, chain multipliers and an auto-reshuffle. Twenty-five swaps per dive.
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In the current
Current Wheel
A slow rotating ring of reef sectors. One pointer, one release, no stakes of any kind.
In the current
Trench Columns
Three vertical trenches drift past a single reading line. Purely decorative outcomes, purely virtual tokens.
In the current
Star Drift
Line up drifting sun stars on a five-lane grid. A gentler pace for longer, quieter sessions.
In the current
Jelly Bloom
A memory-and-pattern pool where drifting jellies reveal matching light signatures.
In the current
Ember Garden
Grow a coral branch across a hexagonal field. Slow, tactile and completely free of stakes.
Before you dive
Pool questions
No. The pools open immediately. The Daily Pearls form asks for a nickname and an email only so the panel feels complete — your vault is stored locally in your own browser either way.
Claim the free daily allocation from the header and you are back in the water. There is no other way to obtain Pearls, and nothing to purchase.
Yes. The board scales to the screen and every token is a tap target. Portrait orientation on a mid-size phone is comfortable for the full eight-by-eight grid.
Only time. Glow Pearls are fictional counters with no external value, so nothing beyond your attention is ever committed to a dive.
Twenty-five swaps, one glowing board
Take the daily allocation, run a dive and see where the cascade stops. Then take a break — the pools are not going anywhere.