How to play Puyo Puyo (Reopened ver.)

-- How to play Puyo Puyo: Concept of making chains --

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If you want to make chains, we build some chains with all Puyos. Having fun with Puyos is good, but it is easy to make few chains, and difficult to make many chains.

Pattern 1: Stairs

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1-on-3 Stairs

Step 1: First of all, place 2 puyos at 6th (or 1st) column, rotate vertical (ex: red)



Step 2: Spin 1-1 puyos (example: red - green), first puyo go into 5th (or 2nd) column and second one into 6th  (or 1st) column.



Step 3: Second same pair of puyos must placed on the 5th (or 2nd) column first puyo.



Step 4: Put 1-1 puyos and place the first puyo (ex: blue) into 4th (or 3rd) column and second one (ex: red) into 5th (or 2nd) column.


Step 4a

As you can see, Green is now your trigger: It can make 2 chains.

Place a pair of puyos to make the chain!


Step 4b

Step 5 EX: Place more puyos to make a good chain.
(EX is extra)


3 chain


3 chain, animated

Transition: "THE SECOND FLOOR"
Stairs is exactly easy to learn, but if you don't know how to make a transition, the most you'll be getting is a ~5 chain. To make chains bigger than 5, you will need a transition. But what exactly is a Transition? Well, first you need to understand the concept of floors.



In order to make big chains, you’ll have to chain in layers, or floors. Basically, you have one chain on the first floor and another chain on top of that chain. A Transition refers to the Puyo that connect your top chain to the bottom chain at the wall.




The Stairs Transition

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The Stairs transition can actually be one of the more complicated ones to learn. But I think that once you get this down, everything else is a snap to learn. So let’s get started. First, let’s look at a chain that doesn’t have a transition yet.



To set off this chain, we need a blue - green pair to put in Column 1.



But what if... we used the Blocking Method on top of the reds?



Now all you have to do is keep extending off the yellows!

Building the Stairs Transition

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Of course, Transitioning is easier said than done. Your Transition is actually one of the weakest points in your chain because it requires a lot of Puyo of certain colors, of certain amounts, in a certain order. The rule of thumb is to wait until the game gives you most the pieces you need all at once (pay attention to the NEXT Window!). However, if you need the transition done right away, there are two things you can do: (1) build the transition in the wall column before you build the surrounding columns, or (2) waste a few Puyo to make it easier. (Waste Puyo?? Blasphemy!! Well, it’s not as bad as it sounds.)

Option 1: Build the Wall Column First
Let’s say you have this...


...but the game gives you really bad colors.


Sure, you have a transition. But now you can’t even access it. Instead, you should wait until you get pieces that allow you to build the wall-column really high and then start extending.


If you don't want to waste more time, place more Puyos to make chains.



Option 2: Waste a Few Puyo
Essentially, the problem presented in the above section was about overcoming the height differences between columns. If you really aren’t getting the pieces you want, you can ”waste” a few Puyo to prop up your transition so that it’s higher than the other columns.



But actually, if you want to chain red, you will make like this:


As a result, you will make a correctly 15 chain.

Color Conflicts

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Color conflicts occur when certain groups of Puyo pop other groups when you don’t want them to. The Stairs transition has one major color conflict that you need to watch out for:



At first glance, that really looked like it was gonna work, huh? When you make the Stairs transition, you have to pay special attention to the colors you choose for the first floor. Column 1 and Column 3 can NOT be the same color!

And a BEST WAY for you is to AVOID the Color conflicts like this.



Just do not chain yet. And actually the color conflicts makes you missed the chain you ALREADY have.

Other tips

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• Since the Stairs Transition requires you to overcome a large height difference, the Stairs Pattern is very weak unless you do the Transition right away. Thus, most Stairs users start working on their transition right at the start of the match. But there's also another reason for this. Have you noticed that the first two pieces that the game gives you never contain the fourth color? Many players suggest that you build your transition right at the start of a match because it's easier to build a transition with three colors instead of four.
  

• The largest chain to make is a 19 chain.
  

There are 6 variants and 2 modes: 3~5 colors.

1. "Full" stairs: 3 variants


2. Kenny formula: 3 variants



Did you know, all new puyo users? You can make chains and practice to become a "Puyo Master"! Practice more in Puyo Puyo, and good luck making more puyo chains!