Zumba Story

About this game

Zumble Story is a shooter played against a jungle backdrop, arranged as numbered stages rather than a continuous board. Each stage states two things before it begins: what it wants cleared, and how many shots you are given to do it.

The first stage set its target as CLEAR ALL and allowed 34 shots, both shown in the header while playing. Fail it and a panel returns headed with the stage number, repeating the target with a red cross beside it and offering Try Again.

How to play

Fire coloured balls from the launcher into the line and match them by colour to remove them. Because the allowance is counted in shots rather than in time, a ball fired badly is spent whether or not anything was cleared by it.

The same panel offers a booster slot before a retry, holding three positions that were still padlocked on the first stage. The publisher's own instructions describe tapping to shoot the balls and matching them to clear the line.

Tips

• Aim into the middle of a colour run rather than its end. Landing inside a group counts the balls on both sides of the ball you fired, which is how one shot removes more than the two it touched.
• Watch the shot counter against the length of the line, not against the clock. Thirty-four shots for a full clear is a fixed budget, so a stage is lost long before the last ball if the average shot is only taking one target with it.
• Hold fire while the line is still moving into position. A shot released at a shifting target lands where the gap was rather than where it is, and there is no penalty at all for waiting.

Provider details

The provider's listing files Zumble Story under arcade, match-3 and bubble shooter. The build record identifies ZUMBLE Story version 1.0.1. Its supplied instructions describe tapping to shoot balls and matching them to clear the line, and the stage card reserves three booster slots that begin locked.