Fun Ball Shooting Puzzle Game - In The Bucket
Play an interesting, interactive and surprisingly-challenging ball shooting-based puzzle game where you have to deflect, direct, bounce, ricochet, and in any other way possible carefully guide a set number of yellow balls into an awkwardly-positioned bucket in a series of 30 obstacle-filled levels (which initially might seem straight-forward but soon get tricky!). In The Bucket, you start each level with an unlimited supply of bouncy yellow cannonballs which are fired automatically from a pipe, and you must utilize various wooden objects and shapes so that a number of balls fall into the bucket (usually positioned in a tough-to-reach place).
This is a good game for both younger and older players who enjoy physics-based puzzles, and fun engineering-based problem solving games. Apply your brain power and observation skills to find ways to use the general contours of the level, the movable wooden components, the speed of the cannon shot, and the effect of gravity on the balls so that sufficient of the happy little balls get dunked into the bucket of water. To be successful in this stimulating and entertaining brain teaser, you must combine good strategy and concentration, accurate object placement, logical thinking, a steady mouse-moving hand, and plenty of trial and error. Enjoy helping the balls find their way to a good wash!
How to Play: In each of the 30 progressively difficult levels, your goal is to get a set target number of yellow balls (indicated in the bottom right corner of the game screen) into the wooden bucket (The target number of balls changes depending on the difficulty of the level). Each level features one or more movable wooden shapes (square blocks, triangles, rectangles, circles etc). Using your computer mouse or touchpad, click and drag these objects anywhere around the play area. Then, click on the large pipe to begin the ‘flow’ of balls. Once you have activated this pipe (which changes position in each level), new balls are automatically fired into the play zone every couple of seconds. You can also click on the pipe again to stop the flow of balls.
It is also possible to immediately start the flow of balls, and then move the deflecting objects afterward. This way, you should soon get a good idea of how fast the balls are traveling out of the pipe, and where you need to place your movable objects in order to best deflect the balls safely toward the bucket, while avoiding any spikes and other hindrances. Once you have reached the target number of balls in the bucket, you progress to the next level. The faster you complete this task, the more bonus points you score. Enjoy!
If this Flash-based game no longer works on IE11 or Chrome browser on your PC / MAC, try playing Firefox browser with Adobe Flash player installed.