

When four or more Puyo of the same color line up adjacent to each other, the Puyo will connect to each other, "Pop", and disappear.

The piece falls until it reaches another Puyo or the bottom of the screen. The pieces can be moved, dropped, and rotated as they fall. Puyo are round, slime-like creatures that, in most variations of the game, fall from the top of the screen in groups of two, three, and four. Generally, the objective of Puyo Puyo games is to defeat the opponent by causing the third column from the left of their side of the screen to become filled with Puyo. Puyo Puyo was created as a spin-off franchise to Madō Monogatari ( Sorcery Saga), a series of first-person dungeon crawler role-playing games by Compile from which the Puyo Puyo characters originated. Sega has owned the franchise since 1998, with games after 2001 being developed by Sonic Team. Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ), previously known as Puyo Pop outside Japan, is a series of tile-matching video games created by Compile.
