--- title: "Pin-pulling puzzles: API" package: "@phaser-ae/pull-pin" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-1 released: 2026-10-19 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "The rules of a pin-pulling physics puzzle: pull pins to drop balls into a cup, or let lava, water, rocks and treasure decide a hero's fate." url: https://phaser.io/packs/pull-pin/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Pin-pulling puzzles: API `@phaser-ae/pull-pin` — Pull pins to drop coloured balls into a cup, or lava, rocks and treasure to save a hero, as in Pull the Pin and Hero Rescue. ## The pack ### `pullPin` ```ts function pullPin(): Pack<{ pullPin: PullPinApi }> ``` The `pull-pin` pack: `game.pullPin`, Pull the Pin's and Hero Rescue's rules on a physics-2d world per level. ## Functions ### `createPullPin` ```ts function createPullPin(level: PullPinLevel, options: PullPinOptions = {}): PullPinGame ``` Make a game of a level. Throws, listing every problem, on a level `validatePullPinLevel` refuses. ### `fillBalls` ```ts function fillBalls(fill: PullPinFill): PullPinBall[] ``` The balls a fill holds: a close-packed grid inside its box, top row first. ### `validatePullPinLevel` ```ts function validatePullPinLevel(level: PullPinLevel, kinds: ReadonlyArray = []): string[] ``` Check a level and say what is wrong with it, as plain sentences; empty when it can be played. ## Constants ### `pullPinDefaults` ```ts const pullPinDefaults: { readonly gravity: 900; readonly pinThickness: 14; readonly pinSpeed: 1400; readonly ballRadius: 11; readonly rockRadius: 22; readonly cupHeight: 90; readonly heroWidth: 36; readonly heroHeight: 56; readonly heroSpeed: 110; readonly enemyWidth: 40; readonly enemyHeight: 52; readonly enemySpeed: 90; readonly crush: 140; readonly settle: 1.5; readonly wallThickness: 16; } ``` The defaults the level falls back on. ### `pullPinLevels` ```ts const pullPinLevels: { readonly classic: readonly PullPinLevel[]; readonly hero: readonly PullPinLevel[] } ``` The built-in levels, by box. ## Types ### `PullPinApi` ```ts interface PullPinApi ``` What the `pull-pin` pack adds to a game: `game.pullPin`. - `create: typeof createPullPin` — Make a game of a level. - `validate: typeof validatePullPinLevel` — Check a level; empty when it can be played. - `fill: typeof fillBalls` — The balls a fill holds. - `levels: typeof pullPinLevels` — The built-in levels: the classic box and the hero box. - `defaults: typeof pullPinDefaults` — The defaults every element falls back on. ### `PullPinBall` ```ts interface PullPinBall ``` A ball. - `kind?: PullPinStuff` — What it is made of. Default `'ball'`. - `x: number` — Where it starts, across. - `y: number` — Where it starts, down. - `radius?: number` — Its radius. Default 11 (rocks 22). - `colour?: string | null` — A ball's colour; null (the default) is grey, which takes the colour of a coloured ball it touches. ### `PullPinContext` ```ts interface PullPinContext ``` What a registered element can reach. - `readonly world: World` — The physics world. - `readonly level: Readonly` — The level. - `readonly state: Readonly` — The game's state. - `readonly balls: ReadonlyMap` — The balls still in play, by id: their body in the world, stuff and colour. - `emit(name: string, detail?: unknown): void` — Tell the presenter something happened. - `lose(): void` — Lose the game. ### `PullPinCup` ```ts interface PullPinCup ``` The cup at the bottom: balls that fall into it are counted. - `x: number` — Its middle, across. - `y: number` — Its top edge. - `width: number` — Its width. - `height?: number` — Its height. Default 90. - `need: number` — How many balls fill it: the level is won when this many coloured balls are in. ### `PullPinElement` ```ts interface PullPinElement ``` An element of a kind the game registered: `kind` names it; the rest is its data. - `kind: string` — The registered kind's name. - `[key: string]: unknown` — The kind's own data. ### `PullPinElementKind` ```ts interface PullPinElementKind ``` A kind of element a game adds. Its state must be plain JSON. - `create(entry: PullPinElement, ctx: PullPinContext): S` — Make an instance's state from its level entry. - `step?(state: S, ctx: PullPinContext, dt: number): void` — Run every fixed step, after the physics and the built-in rules. - `view?(state: S, ctx: PullPinContext): unknown` — What a presenter draws for it. ### `PullPinEnemy` ```ts interface PullPinEnemy ``` An enemy: walks at the hero when it can see it. Lava or a falling rock kills it. - `x: number` — Where it stands, across. - `y: number` — Where it stands, down. - `width?: number` — Its width. Default 40. - `height?: number` — Its height. Default 52. - `speed?: number` — How fast it walks. Default 90. ### `PullPinEvent` ```ts type PullPinEvent = | { kind: 'pull'; pin: string } | { kind: 'out'; pin: string } | { kind: 'colour'; ball: number; colour: string } | { kind: 'harden'; ball: number } | { kind: 'cup'; ball: number; count: number } | { kind: 'crush'; enemy: number } | { kind: 'burn'; enemy: number } | { kind: 'loot'; ball: number } | { kind: 'won' } | { kind: 'lost'; cause: 'grey' | 'bomb' | 'hero' | 'stuck' } | { kind: 'element'; element: number; name: string; detail?: unknown } ``` What happened, for the presenter. ### `PullPinFill` ```ts interface PullPinFill ``` A box filled with balls on a close-packed grid: how a level holds a chamber full. - `kind?: PullPinStuff` — What they are made of. Default `'ball'`. - `x: number` — The box's left edge. - `y: number` — The box's top edge. - `width: number` — The box's width. - `height: number` — The box's height. - `radius?: number` — Each ball's radius. Default 11. - `colour?: string | null` — The balls' colour, or null for grey. Default null. - `count?: number` — How many at most. Default as many as fit. ### `PullPinGame` ```ts interface PullPinGame ``` A game of one level. - `readonly level: Readonly` — The level, as played (a copy, fills expanded into balls). - `readonly state: Readonly` — The state, live. - `readonly world: World` — The physics world, for a registered element or a presenter. Replaced by a restart or a restore. - `step(dt: number): void` — Advance by `dt` seconds. Once the game is over the physics runs on and the rules stop. - `pull(pin: string): boolean` — Pull a pin by id. False when there is no such pin, it is out already, or the game is over. - `pinAt(point: { x: number; y: number }, reach?: number): string | null` — The pin a tap at this point would pull (its handle, or the bar itself), or null. - `drain(): PullPinEvent[]` — What happened since the last drain, oldest first. - `view(): PullPinView` — Everything to draw. - `restart(): void` — Start the level again. - `snapshot(): PullPinSave` — The game as plain JSON: its moves, replayed on restore. - `restore(save: PullPinSave): void` — Resume a snapshot of this level. Throws on another level's, and leaves the game as it was. ### `PullPinHero` ```ts interface PullPinHero ``` The hero (Hero Rescue): walks to treasure it can see, and must not touch lava or an enemy. - `x: number` — Where it stands, across (its middle). - `y: number` — Where it stands, down (its middle). - `width?: number` — Its width. Default 36. - `height?: number` — Its height. Default 56. - `speed?: number` — How fast it walks. Default 110. ### `PullPinLevel` ```ts interface PullPinLevel ``` A level. - `id?: string` — Its id, which saves carry. - `name?: string` — A name to show. - `width: number` — The level's width. - `height: number` — The level's height. A ball that falls below it is gone. - `gravity?: number` — Gravity, units per second squared, down. Default 900. - `walls: PullPinWall[]` — The glass. - `pins: PullPinPin[]` — The pins. - `balls?: PullPinBall[]` — Single balls. - `fills?: PullPinFill[]` — Boxes of balls. - `cup?: PullPinCup` — The cup, for the classic game. - `hero?: PullPinHero` — The hero, for the hero game. - `enemies?: PullPinEnemy[]` — Enemies, for the hero game. - `rules?: PullPinRules` — The rule variations. - `elements?: PullPinElement[]` — Elements of kinds the game registered. ### `PullPinMove` ```ts type PullPinMove = { kind: 'advance'; seconds: number } | { kind: 'pull'; pin: string } ``` A move: time passing, or a pin pulled. ### `PullPinOptions` ```ts interface PullPinOptions ``` How a game is made. - `elements?: Record>` — Element kinds beyond the built-in ones. - `step?: number` — The fixed step the rules and physics run at, seconds. Default 1/120. ### `PullPinPin` ```ts interface PullPinPin ``` A pin: a bar that holds things up, and slides out along its length when pulled. - `id?: string` — Its id. Default `pin-`. - `x: number` — Its middle, across. - `y: number` — Its middle, down. - `length: number` — Its length. - `angle?: number` — Its angle, radians: 0 lies across, `Math.PI / 2` stands up. Default 0. - `thickness?: number` — Its thickness. Default 14. - `pull?: 1 | -1` — Which way it slides out: 1 along its angle (the handle at that end), -1 the other way. Default 1. - `speed?: number` — How fast it slides, units per second. Default 1400. ### `PullPinRules` ```ts interface PullPinRules ``` The rule variations. - `grey?: 'lose' | 'ignore'` — A grey ball in the cup: `'lose'` (the default) or `'ignore'` (it does not count). - `bombs?: 'lose' | 'ignore'` — A bomb in the cup, or touching the hero: `'lose'` (the default) or `'ignore'`. - `crush?: number` — How hard a rock must hit an enemy to crush it, units per second. Default 140. - `settle?: number` — Seconds everything must lie still, with no pin left to pull, before a level that is not won is lost. Default 1.5. ### `PullPinSave` ```ts interface PullPinSave ``` A saved game. - `format: 'phaser-ae-pull-pin'` — Always `'phaser-ae-pull-pin'`. - `version: 1` — The save format's version, 1. - `level: string` — The level's id ('' for a level without one). - `history: ReturnType['snapshot']>` — The moves, as the kernel's history saves them. ### `PullPinState` ```ts interface PullPinState ``` The game's state, to read. - `phase: 'playing' | 'won' | 'lost'` — `'playing'`, `'won'` or `'lost'`. - `cause: 'grey' | 'bomb' | 'hero' | 'stuck' | null` — Why a lost game was lost. - `time: number` — Seconds played. - `cup: number` — Balls in the cup. - `pulled: string[]` — The pins pulled, in order. ### `PullPinStuff` ```ts type PullPinStuff = 'ball' | 'bomb' | 'lava' | 'water' | 'stone' | 'rock' | 'gold' ``` What a ball is made of. ### `PullPinView` ```ts interface PullPinView ``` Everything a presenter draws, in level units. - `walls: PullPinWall[]` — The walls, as the level gave them. - `pins: { id: string; x: number; y: number; length: number; angle: number; thickness: number; handle: { x: number; y: number }; sliding: boolean }[]` — Each pin still in the glass: where it is now, its handle's end, and whether it is sliding out. - `balls: { id: number; x: number; y: number; angle: number; radius: number; kind: PullPinStuff; colour: string | null }[]` — Each ball still in play: position, spin, radius, stuff and colour. - `cup: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number; count: number; need: number } | null` — The cup and how full it is. - `hero: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number; alive: boolean; facing: 1 | -1; looted: boolean } | null` — The hero. - `enemies: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number; alive: boolean; facing: 1 | -1 }[]` — The enemies. - `elements: { kind: string; view: unknown }[]` — What each registered element's `view` returned. ### `PullPinWall` ```ts type PullPinWall = | { kind: 'box'; x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number; angle?: number } | { kind: 'circle'; x: number; y: number; radius: number } | { kind: 'polygon'; points: ReadonlyArray } /** A wall along a polyline, `thickness` thick: the sides of a glass. */ | { kind: 'chain'; points: ReadonlyArray; thickness?: number; closed?: boolean } ``` A static wall. 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