Merge Fruits

Merge Fruits is a drop-and-merge physics game set on a sunny market stall. A fruit hangs in a wooden chute at the top of the crate; slide it left and right, let go, and it tumbles down into the pile. Two fruits of the same kind that touch burst together into the next size up, spraying juice and seeds and leaving one bigger, happier fruit behind. Eleven fruits make up the chain, from a little cherry to a watermelon big enough to take up half the crate.

Everything in the crate is simulated: fruits roll off each other's shoulders, settle into gaps and shove the pile sideways when something heavy lands. That is the whole game — the merge you want is often one careful bounce away, and a single greedy drop can wedge a pear where a cherry belonged. Merges inside a second of each other build a combo that raises the pitch and the multiplier, and when the pile gets unruly you can rattle the whole crate with the shake button, three times per run.

Four ways to play. Classic is an endless score chase that ends when a fruit rests above the crate's dashed line for two seconds. Timed gives you ninety seconds. Puzzle is thirty hand-built crates, each with a target fruit and a limited number of drops, rated out of three stars. Daily Crate deals everyone the same sequence of fruit for the day and keeps your best. Scores and stars are saved in your browser; P pauses, M mutes, S shakes and R starts over.