Fruit Cascade

Fruit Cascade is a match three that moves through a sunny orchard one level at a time. Swap any fruit with its neighbour to line up three or more of a kind: they burst with a squish, the fruit above tumbles into the gap and fresh fruit drops in from the treetops. When the new arrangement makes another line it clears by itself, and every link in that cascade raises the multiplier on the points that follow.

Bigger matches leave something juicy behind. Four in a row makes a striped fruit that clears its whole row or column, an L or T shape makes a burst fruit that blows open the area around it, and five in a row makes a rainbow fruit that takes every fruit of one colour. Swap two specials into each other for an even bigger blast. Each of the sixty levels has its own board, with holes, wooden crates and pink jelly, and its own goal: reach a score, collect a number of one fruit, clear every jelly tile, break every crate or bring the acorns down to the grass, all within a set number of moves.

A level takes a few quick minutes, so it fits a short break as well as a long, relaxing evening, and there is no clock, so you can stop and think: every board is a small brain teaser about which swap sets up the next cascade. Moves left at the end turn into striped fruit for a bonus, and your score decides whether you earn one, two or three stars. Every three new stars fill the star jar with a booster: a hammer that smashes one stubborn fruit or crate, five extra moves, or a shuffle. Your stars, boosters and progress are saved in your browser.