Have you seen your friends or even yourself playing a certain game new to the app store that has taken, not only your high school, but the whole nation by storm called Block Blast? 

Block blast has more than 40 million downloads and almost 800,000 ratings with a 4.9 rating.  

Block Blast is a game where you place different shaped blocks in a 8×8 grid and try to make a line so the blocks clear that row or column you lose when you can’t put any of the shapes given to you in the grid. 

The goal of the game is to put the blocks in a row or a column and fill up the whole line and when you do the blocks will clear the row and will give you points you will infinitely play until you lose trying to get the highest score. 

In a survey given out to Liberty students, 63% of students had played Block Blast which is a lot more than half of the students. 

“I downloaded it because my friends would always be playing it and sometimes when I’m really bored, when I’m doing my homework, I will play Block Blast and it is really addictive,” Ashley Sauceda (10) said.

Approximately 44% of the students who had played the game said they downloaded it because they needed another game on their phone. Many also joined because of friends and just to join the trend of everyone playing the game. 

Fifty five percent of students who had played the game stated that they had played the game way too much. Block Blast might be getting in the way of students’ school work, but this does not just include Block Blast. Many other games are getting more than enough play time.