Zplax! is a shooting puzzle game in three dimensions where you need skill and speed to do well. The simple game play appeals to all ages. Pit your skills against others by submitting your scores online. Download additional skins for a fresh look to the game.

You are on an island with a big crater in the middle of it. It looks like a nice tranquil lake of watery stuff. Unfortunately where there are craters there is lava and it is about to overcome the island and take you with it. Sitting on top of the lava is a column of coloured ball looking things. In fact they are attracting the lava. The watery stuff is keeping the lava in check. You are in a rather precarious situation however you can do something about it - you have a big gun!

Your gun shoots these ball looking things at the column. The idea is to get rid of all of the balls. The balls are created from the watery stuff so loading one in the gun reduces the water level a bit. The balls are finely balanced and balls of the same colour have a strange relationship with each other. When you shoot a ball at the column one of four things can happen:

• You hit the water. This does nothing to the column of balls but the water level reduces even more.
• You hit a ball of a different colour. This is known as an 'argh'. The ball you hit is transformed to the colour of the ball you shot.
• You hit a ball of the same colour. This is known as a 'squeek'. The ball you shot evaporates.
• You hit a blank spot on the column. This is known as a 'plonk'. The ball you shot sticks to the column.

If one of the last three things happen the you have disturbed the column. If there are more than three balls of the same colour adjacent to the spot you hit, that are of the same colour as the one you shot with, they will all be ejected from the column. The more balls you can dislodge with a single hit the better. Balls clink down to fill the spots from the ones you eject.

The aim of the game is to get rid of all the balls without running out of water from the crater.