How to play:

Click/tap to launch the ball
Move your finger/mouse to move the paddle
Use the paddle to keep the ball from falling off the bottom of the playing field
Use the ball to break bricks
Knock the 'nains off their bricks
Bounce the 'nains with your paddle for points and powerups
Catch powerups with your paddle to get their bonuses
Avoid flowerpots and other stuff the 'nains throw
Break all the bricks (except "indestructible" bricks) to complete levels
When your paddle has a cannon, click/tap to fire

Hints:

Not all powerups are good! You'll want to avoid some of them!
Some 'nains might throw useful things!
Some powerups make your ball strong enough to break "indestructible" bricks!
You can skip levels in the 'Endless' pack from the pause menu!
You can adjust the playstyle of the game in the 'Options' menu to suit your own personal taste!
Some 'nains only show up at certain times of year!
Be good to others!

Powerups:

Makes the paddle bigger

Makes the paddle smaller

Splits each ball into two balls

Awards 10,000 bonus points

Awards 25,000 bonus points

Awards 100,000 bonus points

Makes the ball plow through everything in its way!

VERY BAD THIS IS VERY BAD DO NOT TOUCH IT EVER NO

Makes the ball slower

Makes the ball faster

Makes the ball explosive

Explosive balls explode when they hit bricks, destroying surrounding bricks

Gives your paddle laser cannons

Laser cannons are rapid-fire

Shots can break ordinary bricks

Click/tap to fire

Makes the ball stick to your paddle (click/tap to release the ball)

Makes the ball frozen

Bricks become frozen when hit

Frozen bricks break when hit and spread freeze to all neighboring bricks

Makes the ball electric

Electric balls destroy any brick with one hit

Electric balls also instantly pop any nains they hit

Gives your paddle a fire cannon

Fire cannons are slow and have bad aim

Shots explode when they hit bricks

click/tap to fire

Gives your paddle an ice cannon

Ice cannons fire fast shots

shots freeze whatever they hit

click/tap to fire

Gives your paddle shock cannons

Shock cannons fire at an angle

Shots bounce and shock whatever they hit

click/tap to fire

Causes an earthquake

All 'nains get knocked off their bricks

Flips the paddle controls

Left goes right, right goes left

Catch another one to undo the effect

Makes the paddle move faster

Makes the paddle move slower

Speeds everything up for a bit

Slows everything down for a bit

Gain an extra paddle for the current level

Instantly win the current level

Creates a shield below your paddle

Shields will save one ball from going out

Catch up to three at a time for stronger shields

Careful: if your ball can plow through bricks, it can plow through shields, too!

Gives your paddle a scatter cannon

Scatter cannons fire multiple shots at once

click/tap to fire

Splits every ball into four balls

also randomly makes each ball explosive, electric, or frozen

Makes the ball move unpredictably

HONK