Screw Puzzle
Pull the screws out in the right order and drop every metal plate — a portrait logic puzzle with keys, padlocks and a shape-building mode.
More arcade games
What is Screw Puzzle?
Screw Puzzle is a free nuts-and-bolts logic game for the browser in which you pull screws out of a board and drive them into empty holes until every metal plate drops away. GameDistribution’s instructions put it in one line: “Click the screw to take it then click the hole to drop it down. Release all the metal plates.”
The game is built for a phone held upright, so it plays in a tall portrait frame. Its main menu has three buttons — Start Game, Jigsaw Mission and Jigsaw Puzzles — under a settings gear and two counters, one for keys and one for coins, both at zero when you first arrive.
Every level of the main game shows the same goal at the top of the screen: “Drop all metal plates”. The first level is a single wooden bar held by one screw, with one empty hole beside it. Tap the screw and it lifts out of the board; tap the empty hole and the screw drives in there instead — and the bar, held by nothing, falls away.
From level 2 the plates start to overlap, and the game turns into a question of order. Plates fall the moment their last screw comes out, and a falling plate can land on — and be held up by — the plate beneath it. Level 2 also introduces a padlock fixed to one plate and a golden key lying on another: tap the key and the padlock turns into an ordinary screw that you can pull like the rest.
Each solved level pays coins. Ours paid 100 per level, with the choice of a plain Get button or a “10x Get” button that plays a video, and a progress bar toward a treasure chest moved from 1/6 to 2/6. Below every level sit three helpers — Key, Tips and Skip — each marked with a video icon.
Jigsaw Mission is a different puzzle on the same board. Its goal reads “Make the shape”: a small picture shows a wooden piece in a frame, and you fix pieces into a seven-by-seven grid of holes to match it. GameDistribution lists Screw Puzzle under HolaStudio and published it on March 18, 2024; the game itself shows no developer credit.
Playing Screw Puzzle
- 1Start a level
Press Play, then Start Game on the Screw Puzzle menu. The goal at the top of every level is “Drop all metal plates”.
- 2Pull a screw
Click or tap a screw. It lifts out of the board and waits for you to choose where it goes.
- 3Drive it into an empty hole
Click or tap an empty hole. The screw goes in there instead, and anything it was holding is now free.
- 4Watch the plates fall
A plate with no screws left drops away. A plate can also rest on another one, so the order you free them in matters.
- 5Use keys on padlocks
Some plates are held by a padlock. Tap the key on the board and the padlock becomes a screw you can pull.
- 6Collect your coins
A solved level pays coins and fills the bar toward the next treasure chest. Press Next for the next level, or Lobby to go back to the menu.
Screw Puzzle controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Click / tap a screw | Pull it out of the board |
| Click / tap an empty hole | Drive the held screw into it |
| Click / tap the key | Unlock the padlock on the board |
| Restart button (top left) | Start the level again |
| Pause button (top left) | Pause the game |
| Key / Tips / Skip (bottom) | Helpers, each marked with a video icon |
Modes & progression
The main levels. The goal is always “Drop all metal plates”; keys and padlocks appear from level 2.
“Make the shape”: fix wooden pieces into a seven-by-seven grid of holes to match a small picture.
A third button on the main menu, next to the two modes above.
A bar on the result screen counts solved levels toward a chest — 1/6 after the first level, 2/6 after the second.
How to win at Screw Puzzle
Find the plate on top. In Screw Puzzle a plate that rests on another will hold it up. Work out which plate is on top of the pile and free that one first, so the ones beneath it have room to fall.
Count your empty holes. Every screw you pull needs somewhere to go. Before your first move, count the empty holes — they decide how many screws you can have out at once.
Reuse the holes plates leave behind. When a plate drops away, the holes in the board underneath it are often free. Look for new places to park screws after every fall.
Grab the key early. A padlocked plate cannot move until its padlock is opened. Tap the key as soon as you can reach it, and the padlock becomes one more screw you can pull.
Restart rather than undo. Screw Puzzle has a restart button in the top-left corner. If a plate lands somewhere it blocks the rest, starting the level again is quicker than trying to work around it.
Save the helpers for hard levels. Key, Tips and Skip each play a video. You do not need them on the opening levels, so keep them in reserve for a level that really has you stuck.
Good to know — Screw Puzzle’s second level turns a padlock into a puzzle piece: tap the golden key lying on the board and the padlock becomes an ordinary screw you can pull.
What makes Screw Puzzle fun
- Pull-and-place screw puzzles with falling metal plates
- Keys that unlock padlocks fixed to plates
- A “Make the shape” Jigsaw Mission mode on a seven-by-seven board
- Coins for every solved level, and a progress bar toward a treasure chest
- Key, Tips and Skip helpers
- Built for portrait play on a phone
- Free in the browser, with no download and no signup
Why play Screw Puzzle on PlayFutbol?
Screw Puzzle runs free and instantly in your browser here — no download, no signup, on phone or desktop. And when you want to test your football brain rather than your reflexes, it sits alongside 48 original daily football trivia games made by PlayFutbol.
Explore PlayFutbol's daily gamesFrequently asked questions
Tap a screw to pull it out, then tap an empty hole to drive it in there. A plate with no screws left falls off the board. Drop every metal plate to finish the level.
The goal at the top of every main level is the same: “Drop all metal plates”. The puzzle is in the order — which screws to move, and where to put them.
Some plates are fixed by a padlock. Tap the key on the board and the padlock turns into an ordinary screw, which you can then pull and move like any other.
It landed on another plate. In Screw Puzzle a falling plate rests on whatever is beneath it, so free the lower plates — or free the plates in a different order.
A second mode on the main menu. Its goal is “Make the shape”: match a small picture by fixing wooden pieces into a seven-by-seven grid of holes.
By solving levels. Each of our first two levels paid 100 coins, with an optional “10x Get” button that plays a video. Solved levels also fill a bar toward a treasure chest, counted out of six.
They are helpers at the bottom of every level, and each is marked with a video icon. We solved our levels without them.
A Congratulation card shows the coins you earned. After you collect them, three buttons appear: Reset to play the level again, Next for the next level, and Lobby to go back to the main menu.
We have not published level-by-level solutions. The approach that works is to find the plate on top, count your empty holes and restart freely when a plate lands in the way.
Yes. GameDistribution lists it for iOS and Android, and the game is laid out in portrait for a phone held upright.
GameDistribution lists Screw Puzzle under HolaStudio and published it on March 18, 2024. We did not see a developer credit inside the game.
Yes. Screw Puzzle runs free in your browser on PlayFutbol, with no download and no account. The video buttons are optional.
Screw Puzzle is a third-party HTML5 game served via GameDistribution and embedded here for free play. PlayFutbol's own 48 daily football trivia games are first-party.