Five elements gameElement Harmony — one of 32 games in Padamz
Wood feeds Fire, Fire makes Earth, Earth bears Metal, Metal carries Water and Water feeds Wood. Element Harmony turns that old cycle of the Chinese Five Elements into a chain puzzle, watched over by a friendly dragon.
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The first six levels teach the elements: sort each one into its home. Then the board fills up. Drag a chain through touching tiles of the same element, or step to the element it feeds. Every step along the cycle scores more, and a chain through all five elements is Harmony.
Obstacles break when you chain the element that overcomes them: Water puts out Fire, Metal cuts Wood. Wildfire spreads if you leave it. Each level has a goal and a move limit, and every level was played through by a computer to set the star scores. There are 30 levels, a daily board and an endless mode.
Three things that help
- Say the cycle as you drag: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water.
- Look for a long chain before a quick one. Steps along the cycle multiply the score.
- Put out wildfire early. It spreads every few turns.
Questions
What are the Five Elements?
Wu Xing, the Chinese idea that Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water feed and overcome each other in a fixed cycle. It is used in medicine, calendars and the zodiac.
Is it good for children?
Yes. The first levels are sorting games, and the cycle is shown on screen.
Is it free?
Yes, free with no account, in the browser and in the Padamz app.
Where it sits in Padamz
Padamz is 32 games in one place, free and with no account. The spine is a daily word puzzle in twelve languages — Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, English, Spanish and Dutch — with one hidden word a day and six tries at it. Element Harmony is one of the games around it, and none of them are locked: you can play any of them the moment you arrive. There is an Android app and an iPhone app as well, and everything keeps working offline once it has loaded.
Opened from inside Padamz, every round counts on Element Harmony's weekly leaderboard: pick an avatar once and compete with players everywhere — the board resets each Monday, and last week's top three wear a crown.
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