Fruit Frenzy
Fruit Frenzy is a free online match-3 puzzle game - no ads, no downloads, and no account required to play. Swap adjacent fruits to form a line, a square, or an L-shape, and every clear refills the board with fresh fruit from the top so there's always another move to find.
Each level hands you one to three target fruits to collect and a limited number of moves to do it in - clear enough of every target color in time to advance, with a new difficulty, board size, and fruit selection waiting on the next level. Run out of moves and you'll simply retry that level, so nothing's ever truly lost. How high a level can you reach?
Each level picks one, two, or occasionally three target fruits and asks you to clear a certain number of each within a limited number of moves - collect every target color's full amount to advance. A completed target's chip turns into a checkmark so you can see at a glance what's still left to finish. A new target selection, board size, and move budget wait on the next level.
Clearing every objective clears the board and celebrates right there with how many moves you used - hit Next Level when you're ready to continue.
Swap two adjacent balls to form one of three shapes, and every matching ball in it clears:
Same-color balls that are just touching but don't form one of these shapes won't clear - arrange them into a line, square, or L first.
Stuck for a bit? After about 5 seconds, two balls you can swap to make a match will glow to give you a nudge.
The board is always completely full. Every time you clear a group, the balls above it fall down and fresh new balls drop in from the top to refill the gap - so there's always another move to look for.
Only a swap that actually forms a valid shape costs a move - a swap that doesn't snaps right back for free, so feel free to experiment. If the board ever gets truly stuck with no matching swap left, it automatically reshuffles itself for you at no cost. If you run out of moves before reaching the target - or in the rare case a reshuffle can't find a working arrangement - you'll retry the same level with a freshly dealt board; your level number is safe, only that attempt is lost. You can also hit Restart Level any time for the same fresh start (same size and shape, fresh fruit) without giving up your level.
Clear a group of 6 or more balls - any shape, or several touching shapes cleared together - and you'll earn a bomb. Tap the Bomb button, then tap any ball on the board to detonate it - clearing that ball's entire row and column at once, for free (it doesn't cost a move). You can bank up to 5 bombs at once - use some before earning more.
Clear a group of 4 or more balls - a line, a square, an L-shape, it doesn't matter which - and one of them stays on the board as a glowing, striped power-up instead of clearing. Tap it directly to clear its entire row, or swap it with any neighbor - matching or not - to the same effect. Using it still costs a move.
Finishing a level always pays out coins, and playing carefully pays out more: you earn a bonus for every move you didn't have to use, plus a bigger bonus for every row-clear power-up still sitting unused on the board when you win. Save your rockets for a rainy day instead of popping them the moment you get one.
Spend your coins on Clear Board - it instantly clears every ball on the board at once, for free (it doesn't cost a move), a huge head start toward the objective.
Signed in? Tap Daily Bonus once every day for a free stack of coins on top of whatever you earn from playing.
Every level rolls its own mix of difficulty knobs - how many ball colors are in play, how many simultaneous target fruits you're asked to collect (one to three), and how far you've climbed - summed up in the Easy / Medium / Hard / Very Hard badge next to your level number. The scene behind the board changes to match, too, from a sunny meadow on Easy all the way to a lava fortress on Very Hard.
More colors mixed in means your target is rarer and big groups are harder to find; more simultaneous targets mean any single match is less likely to help one of them. The board's size - and sometimes its shape - is randomized every level too, so you'll need to adapt to diamonds, hexagons, and other silhouettes, not just plain rectangles. Your move budget adjusts to match whatever a level throws at you, but gets noticeably tighter on Hard and Very Hard levels - and steadily tighter still the further you climb - so levels keep getting harder.
If you want to reset your progress, click here to go to the API's page and click Send. Disclaimer: This will set you back to Level 1 and any coins collected and power ups will be reset.