Triple Tiles

Triple Tiles is a calm matching puzzle about reading a stack. Thick, rounded tiles with little pictures of fruit, farm animals, flowers, sweets and tools lie on top of each other in layers, and anything with a tile on top of it sits dimmed until it is uncovered. Tap a free tile and it hops down into the tray at the bottom of the screen, where it lines up next to its twins. Three alike pop and leave the tray. Seven tiles in the tray with no three alike, and the level is lost.

There are fifty levels across five chapters, from a small orchard of eighteen tiles to towers of seven layers and sixteen kinds. Every board is built in multiples of three and played through by a solver before you see it, so every level can be cleared without help. When a board does get away from you, there are three helpers per level: undo puts the last tile back, shuffle mixes the pictures still on the board, and out lifts three tiles from the tray onto a shelf where you can pick them again. Helpers cost moves, and the moves you have left at the end decide whether you earn one, two or three stars. Clearing triples close together builds a combo for a higher score.

There is no clock anywhere, so it is a good game to relax with, but it still gives your brain something to chew on. A daily level is dealt from the date, the same board for everyone until midnight, and your daily streak and stars are kept on your own device. Play with a mouse, a finger, or the keyboard alone.