TenMaster Complete Guide — Sum-of-10 Rule, Pieces, Bricks, Special Cubes and All 8 Items

This is the complete TenMaster guide. Rules and controls, the screen layout, reading runs that add up to 10, how the three pieces cycle, the bricks that drop from above, what happens when you’re stuck and how to continue, scoring and targets, special cubes and the wild ★, hints and all eight shop items, missions and coins — everything in the game, in order. Every number comes straight from the actual game code, and every screenshot and animation was captured from the real game.

• Drag — touch a piece in the tray below and drag it onto the board. The piece floats a little above your finger (1.35 cells), so your finger never hides it.
• It snaps like a magnet — if a valid spot is within 1.6 cells, the piece clicks into it. A rough drag still lands in the right cells.
• Preview — before you let go, the cells that would pair up and vanish at that spot light up.
• Drop — let go over a spot where the piece doesn’t fit and it simply returns to the tray. No penalty.
• No rotation — pieces never rotate. A horizontal 2-cell piece and a vertical 2-cell piece are two different pieces.

Before anything vanishes, the equation appears first — 3 + 7 = 10. You get a moment to read why it popped, and only then do the blocks burn away.

Every time a board opens, the Choose an item to use window pops up first. If you have no items, just tap Start without item. Next, number blocks sweep over the whole screen and pull away to reveal the level number, and on a freshly started board you get a 3 · 2 · 1 countdown along with N players are on this level right now.

There are only five two-cell pairs. But runs can get longer — 2 + 3 + 5, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4, 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 4. There’s no length limit, and the longer the run, the bigger the callout and the score.

If a single move completes a row and a column at the same time, both lines vanish together. Dropping one number into the crossing point of a plus shape is the way to clear the most with a single cell. Runs can overlap or contain one another — it doesn’t matter. Any cell that belongs to at least one run disappears.

From level 100 the 3×3 shows up twice as often, and from level 110 the game rolls for extra 3×3s on top of that (up to 14% at level 203). The numbers printed on the pieces follow a rule too — from level 5, 5 appears more often. A 5 can only pair with another 5, which makes it trickier to handle than any other number.

• When the number at the top center hits 0, a brick drops onto an empty cell. The interval is 12 seconds on level 1, 8 seconds on level 100, and 6 seconds from level 200.
• The landing cell is marked 3 seconds ahead. Fill that cell with a piece first and the brick retreats to another spot, showing MOVED.
• Every third drop, the number of bricks per drop goes up by one, and when it does you’ll see x2 BRICKS.
• Bricks are not numbers. They never pair up, they break runs, and even shop items can’t break them. The only thing that removes them is the continue bomb.
• When the level changes, every brick on the board disappears.

1. When only one piece in the tray can still be placed: LAST MOVE.
2. When none of the three fit anywhere, the game gives you three new pieces once per level, for free (NEW PIECES).
3. If you’re still stuck: NO MOVES, and then GAME OVER.

There are two ways to continue — watch one ad, or pay 300 H-Coins. You can use them as many times as you like. When you continue, a bomb drops into the middle of the board and wipes a 3.3-cell radius including bricks, and you get three new pieces.

• Special cubes (row · column · bomb · magnet) — from level 8 they mix into the tray as single-cell pieces. Levels 8–29 give 2 per board; from level 30, 1. If the board is more than 62% full they arrive sooner. They do their job the moment you place them, then vanish.
• Cells pulled in by the magnet also count as “changed this move”, so if pulling them in makes a sum of 10, they pop. Bricks aren’t pulled, and they block anything behind them too.
• Wild ★ — from level 5 it replaces numbers inside pieces (2% → up to 7%). In the equation it shows up as ? (7 + ? = 10). A run made only of ★s doesn’t count, though — it needs at least one real number.

Shop items — buy them and keep them in your bag

Shop items are bought with H-Coins and stay in your bag with no expiry. During a game, tap the bag to the right of the hint to spread out what you own. Items that target a cell show Tap a cell to use it and Cancel; tap a cell where the item would do nothing and you’ll see Nothing to clear there — the item isn’t used up.

Items can’t break bricks either. Time Freeze does exactly what it says and adds 15 seconds to the time left (up to 99 seconds in total). Double Score, however, ends when the level changes, even if 30 seconds haven’t passed. Use it when the end of the level is still a long way off.

• Levels never end. Clear one and tap NEXT.
• The board carries over. When you move up a level, the numbers left on the board stay where they are — only the bricks disappear. The board is only laid out fresh when you start a new game or retry (8 cells on level 1, two more each level up to 26 cells at level 10, then very slowly from level 60 up to 34 cells at level 130).
• The background is a night sky that changes every 4 levels. After cycling through all twenty-four (level 96), it starts over from the first.

• H-Coins start at 0. You earn them with Watch ad for 100 coins in the shop, and through missions.
• Daily missions — nine every day, 10 coins each (Watch ad to double), plus another 100 coins when you finish all nine.
• Bottom bar — HOME · MISSION · ACHIEVE · ITEM · SETUP · MORE. The tutorial in settings opens the manual on the homepage.