Green digits rain down in three columns — tap a column to catch its lowest digit before it hits the floor. Never catch the pink viruses. 3 mistakes and you're breached.
👆 Tap a column to catch ← All gamesMatrix! turns your screen into a wall of falling code. Glowing green digits drop down three columns toward a humming floor line, and your job is to intercept every one of them. Tap a column and the lowest digit in it bursts into particles for +2 points; the rarer golden digits are worth +5. But the rain is corrupted: jittering pink virus digits fall among the good ones, and catching a virus costs one of your three hearts — as does any green digit that slips past you and touches the floor. Viruses that reach the floor dissolve harmlessly, so the right move is to let them fall. Lose all three hearts and the system is breached. Free to play in any browser on mobile or desktop, no download, no account.
Tap the left, middle, or right column to catch the lowest digit falling there (on desktop you can also use the 1, 2, 3 keys or the arrow keys). A tap always grabs whatever is closest to the floor in that column — so check what you're grabbing before you tap where a virus is leading the way down. Tapping an empty column costs nothing. The rain starts slow, then digits fall faster and spawn closer together the longer you survive, and your score also ticks up automatically over time.
Clear the lowest green digit on screen first — height equals time, and the digit nearest the floor is the one that can hurt you right now. When a virus leads a column, freeze that column in your mind as "locked" until the virus dissolves at the floor, then catch what's behind it. Golden digits are tempting, but never chase a +5 while a green is about to leak. In the late game, park your eyes on the floor line rather than the top of the screen: catching late beats reacting early.