matching games

Nine games sit under this label, and the rule beneath all of them is to put like with like until the board clears. Bus Color Jam shows the idea at its plainest, routing waiting passengers onto buses by colour with only a few holding slots to juggle when a queue backs up.

The rest are tile games that reach the same goal by different paths. Grand Mahjong Connect and Mahjong Tile Club clear stacked tiles by joining matched pairs along an open route. Happy Fruit Link and Jewel Link flatten that onto a grid where the crowded centre stays harder to reach than the edges.