There are certain combinations that just make sense. Chocolate and peanut butter, strawberries and bananas, puzzles and explosions...well, okay, anything and explosions, really, but this time, it's being paired up with a bevy of chain reaction puzzles in Blast Master, the newest game by the equally classic combo of Komix and GameBalance.
Each level starts with a preset field of bombs, and a few for you to place around the level. The ultimate goal is to make everything go boom, which is a good goal for pretty much any situation. To do this, you've got quite a few different tools at your disposal. There are basic silver bombs that go boom, red bombs that go boom in different directions, mysterious disembodied floating cat heads that make everything boom a little big bigger, and, of course, a fire that starts the boom. Once you've got the level set up to your liking, press the play button, and watch everything go boom. Or not. Usually not. In which case, you have to figure out what went wrong and try to make it right. Make everything explode and it's on to the next level, for more fun and explosions.
Timing and planning are key to making progress through the explosion-filled world of Blast Master. Fans of trial-and-error style gameplay will have a lot to love here, with free placement of pieces and layouts that don't always have obvious solutions. Fortunately, there's no penalty for failure, and you can keep your previous layout, so you don't have to place everything from scratch (unless you get frustrated and press the reset button as I did many times). It would be nice if you could move selected pieces around with the keyboard to fine-tune some of the harder shots, but it's no problem that a steady hand and lots of patience can't fix. As frustrating as the puzzles can get, it's easy to get completely absorbed by the fast-paced music and beautiful explosions, until you've worked your way through every level.
Alright, now, that's enough reading, get out there and blow some stuff up!
I can't get past level 4. Stupid advert pop on is blocking level 5, 6, 9, and 10 buttons that you have to click and complete before you can move on to the next round.
anyone get level 15 yet? I feel like it doesn't have enough extra pieces
I need help with level 11
can quite understand the principle of he exploding cat
Perhaps if I just post at every level the answers will immediately come to me...13
Level 12
Place the dynamite beneath the given red bomb. The second red bomb can be placed directly where "level 12" is written, so it gets shot later and the cat has time to expand the other bombs before they get hit. Hope that helps!
Level 29 gets me mad... there are so many possibilities and nothing works...
Level 29 gets me mad... so many possibilities and nothing works...
for lvl 13:
place the 2 cats on top of each other right at 10-11 o'clock from the initial exploder
cant get 14 so i will come back later when others can show me the way
Level 15:
Place the dynamite on top of the cat.
Place the bombs at 1:30 and 7:30 relative to the dynamite. Each bomb needs to be placed such that it ignites when the dynamite is set off, and sets off two reactions; one of the half circles and half of the center line.
@phdavoid
when a timer bomb is placed by the cat, it increases the size of the bombs with a single explosion (thats what the squiggly lines do). that allows you to blow the rest up because the explosions can reach the smaller bombs.
need help for lvl 16 please… ahhhhhggg!!
@JIGuest
On level 4 just set the flame off by those red bombs at the bottom. They'll take care of the others, trust me.
I'm more frustrated that they stuck the game at the bottom of the page. Pretty fun game though.
I don't get level 8.
I am embarrassingly stuck on level 5!!!
not quite sure how to solve level 16
Wow! 19 is a doozie. Anybody got a hint?
Level 19
Place bomb on gun looking to the left and place the other gun at the center of the three small balls to the right.
I'm stuck on Level 6. I can't work out if I'm totally on the wrong track with my bomb positioning, or you have to be pixel perfect for this one.
Argh!! The power of posting strikes again! I was about 3 pixels out!
Could anyone help me out with 22? I keep ending up with one left! D:
I'm totally beaten by level 11 and the cat's head. I realize that it explodes and makes other bombs bigger but then what? You don't get another chance to use the rest of your explosives, without re-starting, or resetting the game. The bombs that you place all go off at once and that's it. Help!
Please give solution for level 11. I am defeated by the damn cat!
I'm stuck on level 4- pathetic I know- help please!!!
I'm stuck on level 8, any hints?
Okay, Laura. Level 4 really is a simple one. Leave your dynamite directly above and in between the middle two of the 4 red bombs at the very bottom of the screen. That should do it.
LVL 11
Place the fire tool on top of the cat, then the other fire tool on the bottom center. place each ball too at each side of the bottom center but at the top near the inner circle.
i need level 16 help
Level 8 solution - you put your dynamite in between the top left red bomb and the fixed silver bomb on its left. Place your own silver bomb in between the bottom right red bomb and the fixed silver bomb to the left of that. Buttabing. Mamma mia.
I'm stuck on Level 22, as well. Can anyone help? Keep getting left with 4, or sometimes 2. Gritting teeth, big time. Can't afford to throw the computer out of the window.
Need help with level 17 keep getting one left...
Stuck on 22 as well. This one is tough.
i finally got lvl 16
place one bomb 9 oclock of the large centre bomb
place the detonator at about 5 oclock to the large centre bomb and the second small bomb at about 5 oclock to the detonator.. the unfortunate part is that there is zero wiggle room, so keep moving the detonator down and to the left 1 pixel at a time until to find its limit. then do the same with the second small bomb and you should just barely be able to catch the medium bomb in the lower right side
Level 29 is very Hard !
I need help ^^ !
Level 22:
Place the + bomb above the large ball in the center. It should centered between the middle of the group of balls above the large center ball.
Place the cat and the dynamite to the left of the large ball in the center, slightly to the right of the narrowest position between the group of bals above and below the center line. It must not ignite the
Place the gun immediately to the left of the cat and dynamite.
The dynamite will trigger the gun and the cat. The cat will enlarge the center ball, and the gun acts as a fuse delaying ignition of the center ball long enough to allow the cat to work.
This will trigger a chain reaction all around the center and the + bomb. The + bomb will hit the lines at the top and the bottom; the left and right bullets from the + bomb will take out the two remaining interior circles that the center bomb didn't ignite.
Level 17:
Position one circle immediately to the left of the dynamite in the center.
Position the second circle in the space between the two squares, immediately above and one circle to the right of the dynamite.
Please help on level 21, i am stumped!
Level 17 solution - place your first bomb at 9 o'clock to the dynamite, on the immediate left of it. Place your second bomb at about 2 o'clock to the dynamite, but on the outside of the inner square, close to and inside the big silver bomb at the top right hand corner.
I must be a lovely person. They'd better publish my book, or trouble.
16 level spoiler by blerg is bad.
It's much easer.
Do similar but place the detonator 9 oclock instead of simple bomb. This will give pretty much room to make chain to the bottom large bomb.
Any help for level 24? Confused by the whales. Got any harpoons?
Thank you so much for help with 22!
Level 21
place dynamite to left and slightly above red circle (10:00)
place gun which points up and left to the left of the dynamite, between it and the small gray circle, and level with the small gray circle
place gun which points up and right just above the small gray circle in the lower left of the screen
dynamite should ignite the red circle and the gun pointing up and left simultaneously
the gun pointing up and left needs to ignite the small gray circle to its immediate left and shoot the gun above it which points directly right
the gun pointing up and right needs to be aimed so that it will shoot the large gray circle at the very top of the screen
Hope this helps!
solution for level 24
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9748/lvl24.jpg
need help with 25
Agreed on 24. I can't get there from here.
Love the expression on the whale's face when it spouts water!
Need help with level 26. It's confusing!
Never mind got 26! now need help with 28 get down to 4 balls left
Managed to solve 24. It's a clever little one. Those whales have to be so strategically placed to get the full chain reaction. Trouble is I'm now stuck on 25, which seems as though it should be more straightforward, being symmetrical. Not so easy, so far.
Level 25
Looks like there are a lot of possibilities, but this is what worked for me:
I had one red ball just barely right of center so that it fired into four different groups of balls. The dynamite was immediately to its right and slightly below. Another red ball to the right of the dynamite so that it also fired into four groups of balls. The third red ball was at the far left edge of the group of balls at 10:00. Took a while to aim everything properly!
Thanks, Poppy. I got through 25 before your post. Now losing to 26!
Cant get 29... got down to one left
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7777/l29ug.jpg
anyone figure it out from here
Level 26:
Put blaster and gun from tools in between last columns on far right, but just below so when the gun goes off it goes all the way to the left.
Put whale in between gun and cat face closer to the top red circle.
Tweak them just right and it will work!!!
Level 26 anyone?? cnat figure out what to do with the damn fish!
Level 28:
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2521/bmlvl28.jpg
took me forever and a lot of tweaking
level 29 figured out:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154
/8578/blastmasterlevel29.jpg
Stuck on lvl 30 if anyone actually beats it please let me know.... i'm anxious to see the final puzzle
Level 10 please
Level 30:
Place the smiling cat directly under the dynamite.
Place one of the big circles halfway between the small circle and X bomb at the bottom.
Place the gun so that it aims at the big circle you just placed. It should be above the dynamite so that it also triggers a chain reaction in the line of three small circles above the dynamite.
Place the second large circle partway between and under the two l beams at the middle top. It should trigger the + bomb in the middle.
Place the + bomb down and to the right of the right hand l beam at the middle top. It should not get hit by the bottom gun or the existing + bomb.
Place the whale near the top of the left hand side of the left l beam at the middle top. It should trigger when the last circle in the left l beam detonates, and should push the circles in the square into the path of a bullet fired by the + bomb placed in the previous step.
You will probably need to fiddle with the whale and + bomb placement a little.
The level 14 please
level 15 please i don't understand
Level 15
the dynamite goes on the cat or dog or whatever and the two sphere go to the lower left and the upper right of the dog, approximately
Level 30
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/8437/lvl30.jpg
Level 14
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3420/level14m.png
Level 10
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4778/level10w.png
I have got Level 30 down to 4 left...
Has anybody finished? I can get 4 left on Level 30...
Finally got 30!
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4259/level30c.png
[Edit: image URL updated. -Jay]
Your level 29 solution seems to leave two unexploded at the end. Have tried tweaking it but no good. It's the two guns at the top left which remain. Help again, please. Sorry.
Whoever gave the solution for 29 is wrong! You have put the gun in the wrong place! Its barrel must not be pointing at the big silver bomb at the bottom left of the middle square of bombs BUT above it, so that the bullet misses all the silver bombs and hits the other gun which points up at 10 o'clock.
Solution for 29 works fine, you just have to be sure that the dynamite is positioned so that it simultaneously ignites both of the guns closest to it (at 10:00 and 4:00)
Sorry again, giver of solution 29. Where you have put the dynamite is correct but there are no guns immediately near it at 10.00 and 4.00. The nearest four fixed guns point to 12, 7, 6 and 9 o'clock. Anyway, that's not my point. It's where you've put the moveable gun. It's too low. A fraction higher and it will miss all the silver bombs as it must. As we've learnt, it's all about fractions and tweaking!
Thanks for solution 29. The other person is right, though. You have positioned the movable gun too low on your link diagram. Up a bit and it clears the board.
There seems to be confusion over 29. With precision placement, it works out.
Can anyone help me out with 27?
Apparently there are multiple solutions for many of these. Anyway, the solution for 29 worked for me!
im stuck on 22!!!1
I saw the spoiler and I tried to copy it, but it's really hard without seeing anything.
Anyone have a picture or something?
Yo, can someone help me with number 19? I don't understand the other guide.
Level 27
place the dynamite to the left of the bomb, to the left and slightly down from this put the whale (so that when it goes off it will push the top grey spot as far down as possible). place the cat in the centre of the cluster to the left just under the second from the top.
The dynamite should set off the whale and at the same time set off the bomb shooting the dot with the cat under it and the line to the right triggering the gun which should then shoot the rest of the dots which the cat has increased in size
Stuck on 11, the earlier strategy dosent make sense at all to me
Level 6 please
Your solution of level 29 does not work, does not operate a pistol lower right, although I did exactly the same as in your image, has any other solution?, Thanks.
Hey the level 14 it does'nt work
Put the image in level 15
im stuck on 22!!!1
I saw the spoiler and I tried to copy it, but it's really hard without seeing anything.
Anyone have a picture or something?
this is a good game and all, but it kinda gets to the point where you're just like "how in the WORLD do they expect me to have figured that out???"
The given level 29 solution WORKS!
The gun is right where it should be, firing straight at the ball it's next to.
I was too tired to track all the gun shots on 29. So I cheated and finished it with the spoiler.
for level 14- it doesn't work if slightly off... position things carefully... (I had the same problem)
My solution to level 19, she still finds the gun in the bottom right.
help
OMG! I dont know if its because its gone 2am or because I'm just not getting it, but I'm stuck on level 3!!!
Got through all 30... thanks for the tips everyone.
i am stuck with 18
stuck with 19
Can someone give a solution for 29? The others don't work for me.
All solutions here..
http://img708.imageshack.us/g/25706489.jpg/
I dont get lvl 3 help please
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