About Stack Tax
Stack Tax is a free browser puzzle game about one thing: how high can you get before the tax wins?
You are taxed twice, and both cuts take width. Miss the alignment and the overhang is sliced off - that is the tax your own hands charge, on every move. Then every fifth block arrives narrower whatever you did, and that cut grows the higher you build. Two perfect drops in a row give some width back, three give more. Nothing else does.
How it's made
Built with vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas. No frameworks, no dependencies. Under 50KB total.
The math
The collector takes 10 + 3·floor(H/10) pixels every fifth block, and the window for a perfect drop tightens from 10px to 3px by height 35 while the block keeps accelerating. Both push the same way, and the second is the one that ends the run: however precisely you aim, the block eventually crosses the board faster than anyone can time it. Simulated over 400 runs per skill level, towers finish around 16 blocks for a casual player and around 64 for a very precise one, and none run forever.
Roadmap
- Global leaderboard (Daily Challenge)
- Theme packs
- Stat tracking: best height, longest perfect streak