Motherlode
Match real stones. Dig real places.
A match-3 game from rockhounding.org. Twenty stops in each of fifty states, and every stop is a real collecting site.
Coming to iPhone and Android. Sign in and your progress follows you.
Every stone is a real mineral.
88 kinds to find and put on a shelf.
Amethyst
Citrine
Rock crystal
Obsidian
Geode
Topaz
Malachite
Fluorite
Turquoise
Agate
Gold
Trilobite
Every stop is a real place.
The game starts in Utah because the map did. 946 of the 1,000 stops have their own page on rockhounding.org, with what has been found there and how to get in. The rest open their state’s map.
Dugway Geode BedsJuab County
The geodes weather out of an old ash bed west of Delta and sit in the dirt like potatoes. Most are lined with quartz. The good ones are purple.
Find it on the Utah mapTopaz MountainThomas Range
Topaz in the rhyolite, sherry-coloured when it comes out and clear after a week in the sun. Keep them in the dark.
See it on rockhounding.orgBlack Rock DesertMillard County
Apache tears, obsidian nodules, in the ash of an old flow. Every one is a black lens of glass.
See it on rockhounding.orgU-Dig FossilsDelta
A Cambrian shale quarry. You split slabs with a hammer and the trilobites are inside, Elrathia by the hundred.
Find it on the Utah map
Nothing in the store changes a move.
The store sells boards, cabinets, sounds and plaques. Boosters come from play and from the gear box, one to three a day on the house.
Daylight comes back on its own.
You have five hours of daylight to dig with, and one more comes back every 30 minutes.
Members play without ads.
rockhounding.org members get every reward straight, without watching a video.
What membership includes