Competitive block puzzle
Rival Grid turns the block puzzle into a fair duel. You and your rival play the exact same 7×7 challenge, and the better decisions win. Duels are asynchronous, so nobody has to wait for anybody.
Play free now
Free to download on iOS and Android.
How to play
The rules fit in four steps. The depth comes from what you choose to place, and where.
Drag pieces onto the 7×7 grid. They arrive in trays of three, each one a small shape of square cells.
Fill a whole row or column and it clears, scoring points and making room for what comes next.
Every target resolves exactly once. One line through it is ×2, two or more lines are ×3, and a row and column crossing on the target is a ×4 bullseye.
A round runs through a fixed sequence of up to 30 pieces. Each target lasts six pieces, two trays. The higher score wins the duel.
Illustrations show simplified boards to explain the rules. They are not in-game screenshots.
Fair competition
Most block puzzles are a solo run against your own high score. In Rival Grid your opponent faces the exact same challenge, so the only thing that separates you is how you play it.
You and your rival get the same pieces in the same order, with the same targets. No lucky draws.
Each match is built from a shared seed and ruleset, so it can be reproduced and checked on the server.
Play when it suits you. You do not need to be online at the same time as your rival.
Leave room for upcoming pieces, plan your clears and time your target hits. If no human joins, an AI rival plays the same challenge and is always marked as AI.
An internet connection is required to start online duels.
Illustration
Game modes
Everything is built on the same rules, so skill carries over from mode to mode.
Duel for rank
Win duels to earn Rival Points and climb from Bronze through Master to the Rival tier. Promotion duels and rank defense keep the climb honest, and a best-of-3 rematch series settles a rivalry.
Uses a Hearts and Duel Slots system.
Fresh every day
Three new boards every day. Complete them, push your total score and see how you compare on the daily leaderboard.
Available offline.
Weekly tournament
Register for a weekly cup in your rank class and meet your pod in a series of duels, with a placement round to settle the final standings. Trophies go from Bronze up to Rival.
Ticket-based entry.
Just for the rivalry
Challenge friends and favorite rivals to the same fair duel without putting rank on the line. Friendly matches never touch Ranked, rank points or Hearts.
Unranked.
Progression & personalization
Every duel moves you forward, and your collection shows how you got there.
Seventeen rank steps from Bronze III to Master and Rival, with ranked and daily leaderboards to measure yourself against.
Review your past duels and rivalries, and carry a display name and profile frame that are yours.
Daily and weekly missions plus achievement badges give every session a goal, from your first bullseye to Rival series.
Switch your board, pieces and targets with board themes such as Midnight, Boreal Forest, Volcano or Woodwork.
Default 
Midnight 
Boreal Forest 
Under the Sea 
Beach 
Volcano 
Woodwork Some of the themes available in the game. Cosmetics never change the rules or scoring.
Play free now
Download Rival Grid free on iOS and Android. It contains ads, and an optional purchase removes them.
This is the public website of Rival Grid, a mobile game by Axel Fianke – smart & green media. It has no player login and no accounts. For the operator’s own business reporting, a private Google Cloud project named “Rival Grid AdMob Analytics” reads aggregated ad revenue figures from the Google AdMob API with a single read-only permission. Details are in the privacy policy.
