Cut the Rope

Reviewed by our games team · Updated June 19, 2026

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Cut the Rope is the physics puzzle game that started a whole franchise, and the job is wonderfully simple to grasp: feed a piece of candy to a hungry little green creature named Om Nom. The candy hangs from ropes, and you cut those ropes with a swipe so it swings, drops and rolls its way into Om Nom's open mouth. Along the path sit three stars, and a perfect solve means snagging all of them before the candy lands. It is a 2D logic game played entirely with the mouse, rated 4.6 from nearly 8,000 votes.

What keeps it interesting is that cutting a rope is rarely the whole answer. Timing matters, because slicing a moment too early or too late sends the candy the wrong way and the stars go uncollected. As you progress you meet bubbles that float the candy upward and air cushions that puff it sideways, so each new box asks you to think a little differently. There are 75 stars to collect across the puzzles, and because you can jump into any season you like, a level that stumps you is never a dead end. It is free and runs right in your browser.

What is Cut the Rope?

Feeding Om Nom: the goal

After a short tutorial, Cut the Rope opens with Om Nom sitting inside a box that pops open in front of you. Inside are candies held up by ropes and a scattering of stars. Your task is to cut the ropes in the correct order so the candy swings through the stars and arrives at Om Nom's mouth. You need a certain number of stars to keep progressing, so it is not enough to simply deliver the candy, you want to sweep up the stars on the way. Sometimes that means slicing one rope to build momentum, then cutting a second at the exact moment the candy is lined up with a star. The whole game is built on that satisfying chain of swing, collect and feed.

Three seasons and their boxes

Cut the Rope is organized into three seasons, and each season is a set of themed boxes that hold Om Nom. Every box contains 25 separate puzzles, adding up to 75 stars per box, and each one introduces a fresh feature to play with. The themes run from plain cardboard to spooky, steam, cosmic and musical DJ boxes, so the look and the mechanics keep shifting as you go. One of the nicest design choices is that you are not locked into starting at the first box of season one. You can begin in whichever season you fancy, which means a tricky level never blocks the rest of the game.

Puzzle elements: bubbles and air cushions

Early levels are about clean rope cuts and good timing, but Cut the Rope steadily layers in new tools that change how the candy moves. Bubbles trap the candy and lift it upward, so you have to pop them at the right height to drop it where you want. Air cushions blow a gust that pushes the candy across a gap, which you can use to reach stars that no rope could swing to. Because each box brings in another element like these, the puzzles stay fresh deep into the game, and the real skill is learning to combine cutting, floating and blowing into one smooth solution.

Tips for collecting all three stars

Going for all three stars is where Cut the Rope gets its replay value, and a few habits help. Look at the whole level before you cut anything, tracing in your head the arc the candy will take once a rope releases. Treat the stars as the priority rather than the mouth, since reaching Om Nom is usually easy once the swing is right. When a star sits out of the candy's natural path, that is your cue to use a bubble or an air cushion to redirect it. And do not be afraid to leave a hard box and come back later, because the freedom to switch seasons means you can always make progress somewhere.

Is Cut the Rope free and unblocked?

Yes. Cut the Rope runs entirely in your browser, free to play with no download or account, and because it loads as a web page it works unblocked at school or work wherever browser games are allowed. The mouse controls make it comfortable on a desktop, laptop or Chromebook, and it plays on phones and tablets too. The original launched on Android in March 2012 and iOS in September 2015, and this HTML5 version from May 2024 lets you cut, swing and feed Om Nom right here with nothing to install.

Cut the Rope mobile app

Cut the Rope also has a mobile app. Keep playing here, or get it from Google Play and the App Store.

Cut the Rope gameplay preview

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