Block Blast Scoring and Combos: The Full Formula, Table, and Worked Examples
The pillar’s summary-level scoring notes cover Block Blast scoring at a summary level: 10 points per block in most sources, and headline bonuses of 200, 300, and 360 points for the biggest clears.
This page goes further — the complete bonus table across every line count, the real difference between a combo and a streak, worked arithmetic for several clear patterns, and an honest account of exactly which numbers are solidly corroborated versus which aren’t confirmed anywhere publicly. See the Block Blast Tips guide for the summary version.
How Block Blast Scoring Works, in Full
Most documented sources agree that each block inside a row or column that clears is worth 10 points, matching the figure already established on Block Blast Tips. A single dedicated scoring page instead describes the base mechanic as 1 point per occupied cell at the moment a piece is placed, rather than per block once a line clears — a meaningfully different model. No official Hungry Studio documentation settles which model is correct. This page treats the per-cleared-block model (10 points per block) as the better-supported figure, because it is corroborated across more independently-run sources and matches the number Block Blast itself is widely reported to use, while naming the alternative honestly rather than pretending no disagreement exists.
Line clears are the entire engine on top of that base figure. Clearing one line scores the base points for the blocks in it; clearing several lines in the same placement adds an escalating bonus rather than a flat multiple of the single-line score. That escalating bonus is what the next section tables in full.
The Complete Line-Clear Bonus Table
Two independently-run scoring pages, checked against each other in this research, converge on the same bonus figures across every line count:
Lines cleared in one placement
Bonus points added
1 line
10
2 lines
20
3 lines
60
4 lines
120
5 lines
200
6 or more lines
300
Full board clear
360
These bonus figures sit on top of the base points already earned for the blocks in the cleared lines — they aren’t a replacement for the base score, they’re added to it. The jump between tiers isn’t linear: going from a 3-line clear to a 4-line clear only doubles the bonus (60 to 120), but going from a 4-line clear to a 5-line clear pushes it up by another 80 points beyond that — the bonus curve rewards the rarest, hardest-to-set-up clears disproportionately more than the merely-uncommon ones.
Combo vs. Streak: Two Different Multipliers, Not One
“Combo” and “streak” get used interchangeably across most scoring guides, but they describe two different triggers. A combo happens inside a single placement — clearing more than one line at once, which is exactly what the bonus table above rewards. A streak happens across placements — clearing at least one line on a turn, then clearing at least one line again on the very next turn, with no gap in between. A five-line combo and a five-turn streak are both real, both scored, and neither one requires the other.
What isn’t confirmed anywhere in this research is the exact number the streak or combo multiplier adds on top of the bonus table — every source that describes it uses qualitative language (“stacks,” “increases,” “amplifies”) rather than stating the precise rule. What is corroborated, and stated here as fact: clearing lines on consecutive turns increases the score beyond what the same clears would earn in isolation, and breaking the streak — placing a piece without clearing any line — resets whatever multiplier had built up.
Worked Scoring Examples
Each of these totals uses only the corroborated base-points figure and bonus table above; none of them factor in an unconfirmed combo or streak multiplier, since no source provides a verifiable rule for what that multiplier actually is.
What Isn’t Publicly Confirmed (and Why This Page Says So)
Not every number in Block Blast’s scoring system has a single, source-confirmed value, and this page states that directly rather than presenting one guess as settled fact. Well-corroborated, stated as fact above: 10 points per block in a cleared line, and the 10/20/60/120/200/300/360-point bonus table. Genuinely unresolved: whether the base mechanic scores on placement or on clearing — two dedicated sources disagree and no official documentation exists to arbitrate; and the exact numeric formula behind the combo/streak multiplier. A page that resolved either of those with an invented number would read as more complete — it wouldn’t be more accurate.