Get your ducks in a row.

The bathroom has a rubber duck problem. Drag duck bricks onto the 9×9 board and fill a row, a column or a square to clear it. Keep going until nothing fits.

Free to play 3 game modes Global leaderboards No pop-up ads

The Ducky Dash mode card on the Ducks In a Row home screen
A game of Ducks In a Row in progress, with yellow duck bricks placed across a 9 by 9 board
The global leaderboard screen
Three ways to play

Three modes, one board.

Each mode keeps its own board, high score and leaderboard, so you can leave one halfway through and start another.

Classic

Endless

No clock and no countdown. Three bricks at a time, for as long as you can find room for them. The game ends when nothing fits any more.

  • No timer, no lives
  • 3Bricks in hand at once
  • Pick the board back up any time
Fastest

Ducky Dash

A pipe drops a new duck onto the conveyor every 1.3 seconds, whether you are ready or not. Let one reach the end of the belt and it costs you a life. You get eight hearts.

  • 1.3sA new brick, every time
  • 8Hearts before it's over
  • 0Seconds to think about it
Hardest

Slimed

Clear a line here and a bomb drops into the gap. Cover it before the countdown runs out, or it slimes the tiles around it. Slimed tiles stay where they are until you scrub them off.

  • +250Every bomb you defuse
  • Slimed tiles block the board
  • 3×3A soap scrubs one square clean
How to play

Ten seconds to learn.

No rotating and no swapping. All you pick is where the three bricks go, and what that costs you two moves later.

Pick up the ducks

Drag a brick out of the tray and onto the board. You get three at a time and you have to place all three before the next set arrives.

Fill a line

Fill any nine in a line and it clears: a row across, a column down, or a 3×3 square. Fill several at once and they are worth a lot more.

Keep the streak

Clear on back-to-back placements and the multiplier climbs to ×2, then ×3. Empty the whole board and you get a Perfect Clear.

Scoring

Four lines at once beats four lines one at a time.

One line is a hundred points. Four in a single placement is six hundred, and that is before the multiplier.

  • One line, column or square100
  • Two at once200
  • Three at once400
  • Four at once600
  • Perfect clear, nothing left on the board+500
  • Streak of clears×2 → ×3
Power-ups

Three ways out of a bad board.

Earned from the daily gift, or bought with gems. You bank one gem for every 10,000 points you score.

Undo

Takes back your last placement and hands the brick back. In Slimed it has a price: undoing pushes the bomb countdown forward a step.

Soap

Drop it on any 3×3 square and all nine tiles come clean, slimed ones included.

Wiper

The heavy one. It clears the square you drop it on plus the two above and below, which is a full third of the board.

Leaderboard

Four leaderboards.

Every mode ranks separately, and Total Points ranks everything you have scored across all three. You get a global position from your first game. The player at the top has banked over six million points.

Have a go at it
The Total Points leaderboard, showing the top player and the ranks around your own
Screenshots

Straight from the game.

In the box

Everything else.

A gift every day

Open the box on the home screen for free gems and power-ups. Come back tomorrow for another.

Gems you earn

One gem for every 10,000 points you score. Spend them on power-ups. You never have to buy anything to keep playing.

Never lose a board

Close the app mid-game and it's exactly where you left it. All three modes are saved separately.

18 languages

English, Deutsch, Español, Français, हिन्दी, Bahasa, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Polski, Português, Română, Русский, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, 中文.

No ads in your way

No banners, and nothing full-screen between games. The only video is one you tap on yourself, for a bonus or a second chance.

One thumb, portrait

Built to be played standing up, on a phone, with one hand. Sound, music and haptics all have their own switch.

FAQ

Questions.

Is it really free?

Yes. Free to download and free to play, with no time limits and no paywalled modes. Gem bundles are optional and only buy extra power-ups, which you can also earn by playing.

How many ads will I have to sit through?

None. There are no banner ads and no full-screen ads between games. The only video is one you tap on yourself, either to top up the daily gift or to buy one more move after a game over.

What do I need to run it?

An iPhone or iPad on iOS 16 or later, or an Android phone or tablet on Android 7.0 or later. It is a portrait game and it scales the board to your screen, so it works on small phones and on tablets.

Do I need an account?

No sign-up, no email, no social login. The game creates an anonymous player for you on first launch, which is what carries your scores onto the leaderboard. Ranking needs an internet connection.

Can I move my progress to a new phone?

Not yet. Your boards, gems and power-ups live with the anonymous player on that device. If you're moving to a new phone and want a hand, email us before you wipe the old one.

I found a bug / I have an idea.

Please tell us at [email protected]. Small game, small team, we read everything.

Download Ducks In a Row

Free on iPhone, iPad and Android.