The game Block Blast has been around since 2022, but skyrocketed in popularity during the beginning of the school year. Students are seen playing all around the school, and have reached surprising high scores.
“I was in physics class and my friend next to me was always playing it,” senior Teagan Lee said. “She looked so entranced on what she was doing so I decided to download it.”
There’s nothing extraordinary about it, but students are satisfied by how self-explanatory the game is. It has become a popular new hobby.
“It’s so addicting because it’s just so fun to play,” freshman Nathan Hanson said. “It’s easy to do, and it’s perfect for any little bit of time you have between classes.”
The game has quickly taken over, but possibly in beneficial ways. Students have found that they started to prefer opening Block Blast rather than opening a social media app when they have free time during a class period.
“Any time I have free time at school, I try not to go on TikTok or Instagram because they are both very distracting apps, so I decided to go on Block Blast which has turned out to be just as addictive,” Lee said.
Block Blast is just as addictive as it is popular. Lee wasn’t the only person to see a friend play and decide to search for it on the app store.
“It’s just normal to see someone doing something cool and you follow,” Lee said. “People saw their friends doing it and they are like hang on, this looks kind of fun. Now they can also be relatable to other people; I feel like it created another area where people at our school can connect and relate to each other.”
