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Diya Rush is a Diwali game about lighting lamps at exactly the right moment. A ring of fire closes in on an unlit diya, and you tap that diya the instant the ring meets its golden circle. Get it right and the flame catches with a shower of sparks and the ting of a temple bell; tap too early or too late and it stays dark and costs you a life. Light diyas one after another and each bell rings a note higher, so a clean streak plays a little tune, and every fifth diya sends a rocket up into the night. Every diya you light brings the place around it to life, over eight stages. A home courtyard fills its rangoli with colour, lamps climb the temple shikhara, and the shops of a busy bazaar switch on one by one. At the ghat, diyas float on leaf boats under the moon. On a city rooftop the neighbours' windows light up while rockets go off all around, and at the mela the giant wheel lights bulb by bulb. Then comes the palace, and last of all Deepotsav at Ayodhya, where every step of the ghats fills with flames. From the second stage the wind joins in. Leaves and marigold petals blow across the screen, then a gust sets some of your lit diyas flickering, and you have to tap each one before its flame dies while new rings keep coming, sometimes three at once. Eight stages, three stars each, and every stage is tested to be beatable by a steady player. Diya Rush plays free in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with no download and no account needed.
Watch for a ring of fire shrinking onto an unlit diya. Tap or click that diya the moment the ring touches the gold circle around it; on a keyboard, Space takes the diya that needs you first. Tapping too early, too late, or not at all costs a life. From stage two, a gust makes some lit diyas flicker with a red mark over them: tap each one before its flame goes out. Light every diya in the stage to clear it.
When the ring of fire reaches the gold circle around the diya. The gold circle turns bright and solid in that moment. Waiting for it is the whole trick, because tapping early costs a life just like tapping late.
Eight: Aangan, Mandir Steps, Bazaar, Ghaat, Chhat, Mela, Rajwada and Ayodhya Deepotsav. Each one opens when you clear the one before it, and each has its own three stars to win.
From Mandir Steps onward, leaves blow in as a warning and then a gust sets one or more of your lit diyas flickering, each with a red mark and a countdown. Tap them before the countdown runs out, or they go dark, cost a life and need lighting again.
Clear the stage without losing a single life. Losing one or two still earns two stars, and any clear earns one.
Yes. Click the diyas with a mouse, or press Space to act on the diya that needs you most: a flickering one first, otherwise the ring that closes next.
Yes. There is nothing scary or violent in it, only lamps, rangoli, rockets and festival music, and the first stages are slow enough for children. Older players can chase three stars on the later stages, so the whole family can take turns on one phone.
