Bricks are added one at a time to the "staging line" below the playing area. Once this line is filled, the staging line is promoted, raising your wall of bricks by one row. To remove bricks, just click on any brick which is part of a chain of three or more bricks of the same color. Bricks much touch side-to-side or top-to-bottom; diagonal touching does not form a chain. The larger the chain, the more points you'll get for each brick removed. You also get a point bonus for completely clearing the screen of all bricks. Blockwerx is played on a 12 by 15 playing area which fills will colored bricks. Some bricks will appear on the board at the start of the game; others will be added as the game progresses.

Each time a line is promoted, the number in the Line display goes down by 1. If you survive until the Line number reaches 0, you get a bonus for the unfilled space in your board, and continue to the next level. The speed of the game, and the number of different colored bricks, increases with each level. The game ends after Level 3, even if you survive to the end of the third level. To remove bricks, just click on any brick which is part of a chain of three or more bricks of the same color. Bricks much touch side-to-side or top-to-bottom; diagonal touching does not form a chain. If your wall is all the way to the top of the board, and another line gets promoted, you're game ends immediately. Score points by removing chains of three or more bricks of the same color. The larger the chain, the more points you'll get for each brick removed. You also get a point bonus for completely clearing the screen of all bricks.

Since there are a fixed number of bricks in a level, the only way to increase your score is to get more points per brick, for which you definately have to form large brick chains.Only use The Scrambler when you have no removable chains in your wall, or very few removable chains. Otherwise, it may do more harm than good.

The number of points (Scoring) that you get for each chain depends on the size of the chain: Thus, the smallest possible chain, which is 3 bricks, gives you 10*31.5, or 52 points. A medium-sized chain of 8 bricks gives you 10*81.5, or 226 points. A large chain of 25 bricks gives you 10*251.5, or 1250. Thus, not only do you get more points for larger chains, but you get more points per brick for larger chains.