matching games

The rule beneath every game under this label is to put like with like until the board clears. Fruit Match shows the idea at its plainest — big pieces, slow boards, and matches you can see three moves ahead.

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. Candy Jewels flattens the same instinct onto a swap board, where the cascades you set off matter more than the match you made.