Number Beasts: Bond Lab

Number Beasts: Bond Lab is a free single-player puzzle about making ten with aimed shots and ricochets, created by James Gray under his Honest Little Apps label. Each stage hands you numbered balls and a board of friendly beasts. Launch a number into a beast and the arithmetic decides the outcome: an exact make-10 bonds and pops the beast, a lower total feeds it so it grows to a new target, and any leftover from an overshoot bridges onward to the next beast in the path - or spills back out and lands as a brand-new beast. One well-planned launch can feed, pop and carry through several beasts. The browser version includes 45 handcrafted stages across three worlds - Candy Circuit, Gravity Grove and Chaos Laboratory - each proven winnable by a built-in solver, plus the Daily Lab: a seeded board that is the same for everyone and changes every day. Later worlds add mirrors, arrow pads, falling stacks, moving shuttle logs, splitters, converters, keys and gates, and larger goals such as making 15 and 20. With aim assist on, the full route and the exact sum it will produce are previewed before you launch, so every shot is planning rather than luck. The game is free with no ads, no accounts and no tracking, and progress is saved on the device; browser progress is kept separately from the Number Beasts iPhone/iPad app.

Pick a stage on the lab map - stages unlock in order across the three worlds, and the Daily Lab gives a fresh seeded board every day. Each stage places a launcher at the bottom of the board and shows the stage's par at the top. Move the launcher with the < and > buttons (or the Left/Right arrow keys) to line up with a column, and choose a route with the angle buttons (or Q/W/E) - angled routes bank off the walls to reach beasts a straight shot cannot. With aim assist on, the whole path and the exact sum are previewed, and routes that would miss your target show dimmed. Tap the beast you want to hit, pick the number to launch (the hand buttons or number keys 1-9), then press Launch (or Space). An exact make-10 pops the beast and clears it; falling short feeds the beast so it grows to a new total; the leftover of an overshoot bridges to the next beast in the route or spills back onto the board as a new beast. Clear every beast at or under par to finish the stage and earn up to three stars, and use Restart to try a board again from the start.

Mouse / Touch Tap a beast - Aim at it < / > buttons - Move the launcher left or right Angle buttons - Switch between routes that reach the target (dimmed ones miss) Assist button - Turn aim-assist previews on or off Launch button - Fire the selected number Restart button - Restart the current stage Keyboard Left / Right arrows - Move the launcher Q / W / E - Set the angle (left / straight / right) 1-9 - Pick a number from the hand Space - Launch

Keep aim assist on while learning: every launch is previewed in full, and dimmed routes show which angles would miss the target before you spend a number. Overshooting is a tool, not always a mistake - a leftover can bridge into a second beast on the same route, and a spill drops the spare number back as a new beast to plan around. Check each stage's par before launching. A clean run at or under par is the target, and the Replay for par option lets you retry a cleared stage for a better star run. When a board looks impossible, remember every stage is proven solvable by the built-in solver - try a different launch order or bank an angle off a wall instead of forcing the obvious straight shot.

45 handcrafted make-10 stages across three worlds (Candy Circuit, Gravity Grove, Chaos Laboratory), each proven winnable by a built-in solver Daily Lab with a new seeded board every day, the same for every player Bond, Feed, Bridge and Spill mechanics built on make-10 arithmetic, including bank-shot angles Toggleable aim assist that previews the full route and exact sum of every launch Par score and up to three stars per stage Playable free in the browser with no ads, accounts or purchases; progress stays on the device and the game keeps working once loaded without a connection Desktop keyboard controls alongside mouse and touch input