🔌 BulbRush Update: Endless Mode, Blackout, Weekly Leaderboards & Flair!

Big update just dropped. Here's what's new:

⚡ Endless Mode

A roguelike climb through endlessly generated puzzles that keep ramping in difficulty until you hit the Blackout band.

Every board is move-capped. Blow your move budget and the run ends. Your best level is saved and never lost on a fail.

Tap the glowing ∞ pill in the home header to start climbing.

💡 Blackout Mode (Insane tier)

Insane boards now solve blind. All power, path, and bulb feedback stays hidden until the whole grid is correctly lit.

Only the power source glows as your anchor.

Can you wire it by feel?

🏆 Weekly Leaderboard

A new per-week board aggregates every day's results across the whole week.

Flip between Daily and Weekly in the leaderboard overlay.

A fresh board starts automatically every Monday, and the top finishers get posted in a Weekly Champions thread.

🌟 All-Time Flair Tiers

Earn a permanent, colored flair as your lifetime stars stack up:

  • 🔌 Tinkerer
  • Wiring Pro
  • 💡 Circuit Adept
  • 🛠️ Grid Engineer
  • 🌟 Grid Master

🔧 Also

  • Puzzles got harder across every tier, with twistier paths, more decoys, and roughly double the par moves on Easy
  • 3-star targets are now shown on the result panel and in How-to-play
  • Added a Join button to the home header

Go light it up. ⚡

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u/killerjadu — 7 days ago

BulbRush Bug Reports — Post all bugs here (Megathread)

Found something broken in BulbRush? Drop it in this thread instead of a new post.

Keeping every bug in one place means nothing gets buried, and I can actually track + fix them. New bug posts outside this thread may get removed and redirected here.

Before posting, a quick check:

  • Try refreshing the post once — some glitches clear on reload.
  • Skim the comments below to see if someone already reported it.

When you post a bug, please include:

  1. What happened — what broke, and what you expected instead.
  2. Which puzzle — the puzzle name/number if you know it.
  3. Steps to reproduce — what you tapped/rotated right before it broke.
  4. Your setup — phone or desktop? Reddit app or browser? Chrome, Safari, etc.
  5. Screenshot or screen recording — hugely helpful if you can grab one.

Example of a great report:

> Bug: Bulb stayed unlit even though the circuit looked fully connected. > Puzzle: Medium 5x5 (#3) > Steps: Rotated the corner tile twice to complete the loop, but the last bulb never powered on. > Setup: iPhone, Reddit app. > [screenshot]

I read everything here and will reply 👍 when something is confirmed and ✅ when it is fixed.

Thanks for helping make the game better!

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u/killerjadu — 10 days ago
▲ 5 r/indiehackersindia+1 crossposts

Ideas for building r/Bulbrush

Hi, I’m Akshay, creator of Bulbrush.
Thanks for all the support so far 🙏. as the game grows, I’d love to hear your ideas.
What would you like to see here early on?
Feature suggestions, bug reports, strategy discussions, memes, weekly challenges, feedback threads, or anything else

drop your ideas below!

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u/killerjadu — 19 days ago

New tile just dropped: meet the BREAKER 🔴

Hey grid-lighters 👋

We just shipped a new tile that changes how you think about every puzzle: the Breaker.

Until now the goal was simple rotate the wires, light up every bulb. Breakers flip that on its head.

The rule: light every bulb… but never let power reach a breaker. Route current into one and the circuit overloads - no solve. 💥

It sounds small, but it wrecks the easy strategy. You can't just greedily push power everywhere and watch it light up anymore. Now you have to ask: where does the current go that I DON'T want it to? Sometimes the obvious connection is a trap, and the clean-looking path is the one that blows the whole board. Breakers start showing up in the harder puzzles, and the toughest grids pack more than one, so you're threading power to every bulb while steering it around multiple landmines at once.

Go try today's daily and tell me:

- Did the breaker catch you out the first time? 😅

- Too easy, too mean, or just right?

Drop your runs below ⚡

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u/killerjadu — 1 month ago