Rubetris
The Rubetris app icon: a faceted ruby inside four brass corner brackets on a dark grid.

Rubetris

Three gem-cutting puzzle games. One trilogy.

Cut falling shards into a gem well. Set your rules, then drop in.

Play in your browser Get it on Google Play

Debrix and Rosette play at play.rubetris.com with nothing to install. The Android app has all three.

The trilogy

Debrix, Erikade and Rosette. Three ways to cut gems, each with its own records.

Debrix: a green shard sliding down the east wall of the gem well toward a floor of coloured shards; the HUD reads 420 carats, 11 cuts, speed 5.

Debrix

In your browser and on Android.

Shards enter from any of the four walls. Clear rows and columns.

How it plays

  1. 1. Pick a wallShards slide down one of the four walls. Switch walls to spread the load.
  2. 2. Aim and cutSlide along the wall, turn the shard, then cut. The landing hint shows where it stops on the floor.
  3. 3. Fill a lineFill a whole row or column and it clears out, freeing space and paying carats.
Erikade: a yellow shard falling into a teal well where white shards stack up from the floor; the HUD reads 840 carats, 16 shards, 2 lines.

Erikade

On Android.

Keep the stack low and flat. When a shard cannot enter the well, the run is over.

How it plays

  1. Pick a columnUse A or D to move the shard over the column where it fits.
  2. Turn itUse Q or E to rotate the shard until it matches the gap.
  3. Drop itPress Space to drop the shard to the floor. Fill a whole line to clear it.

Key names are the keyboard defaults. On a phone the touch plates do the same.

Rosette: a hex tray of coloured gems with three highlighted where they meet and a bomb counting down from 6; the HUD reads 2,160 carats, 20 turns, 31 clusters.

Rosette

In your browser and on Android.

Gems set in a hex tray. Rotate three around a point to close triangle clusters.

How it plays

  1. 1. Rotate a trioPick a point where three gems meet and turn them a step either way. One rotation is one turn.
  2. 2. Close a triangleSame-colour gems clear only when every one of them is part of a triangle. A bare row of three stays put.
  3. BombsBombs tick down once per turn. Clear one in a cluster of its colour to defuse it — at zero, the run ends.

Verified rankings

When a run ends in your browser, the game sends the moves, the rules and the score to the rankings server. The server replays the moves itself and ranks only what reproduces. No account, no sign-in: you compete under a name made for your device, like Sapphire-4F2A.

Send verified runs to the rubetris.com rankings under a device-generated name. Off deletes that name and sends nothing.

The rankings live inside the web build, under Rankings on the main menu.

Open the rankings

Verified

This run saved a full replay, so the score can be re-simulated and trusted.

Rankings

Ranked: the standard well competes on the Debrix rankings.

Ranked: Marathon on the standard tray competes on the shared Rosette board.

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A fresh board every day

Every day deals one board per game, the same shards for everyone who plays it. Play it once to start a streak.

Consecutive days with at least one daily run. Playing counts; winning is not required.

On Android, a day with all three dailies played earns the wreath: Trilogy Wreath — all three games today.

Where to play

In your browser

Debrix and Rosette at play.rubetris.com. Instant, no install, and it keeps working offline once loaded. Add it to your home screen for full-screen play.

Play in your browser

On Android

The full trilogy, Debrix, Erikade and Rosette, with touch controls. On Google Play.

Get it on Google Play Debrix on a phone: the well under the carats strip, with the Soft, Rot −, Rot +, Cut and Pause touch plates along the bottom.

More platforms

As they clear review.

Where it comes from

Rubetris began as a gift for Ruby. Every game in the trilogy is named for someone close to its maker.

The Heritage scenes in Debrix are Ukrainian: the Kyiv skyline, the Golden Gate, a sunflower field, a Carpathian valley, Odesa harbour and Lviv rooftops, and every one of them flies the Ukrainian flag. Rubetris stands with Ukraine.

The Heritage look in Debrix: a phosphor score strip over the well, beside a dusk silhouette of the Kyiv skyline with the Lavra bell tower, domes and the Motherland monument above the river, the Ukrainian flag flying on the shore.
Debrix in its Heritage look. The scenes advance as the run speeds up.