Fruitlinker

Fruitlinker is a linking board with produce on the blocks and a night garden behind them — dark background, lit faces, which is a rarer look than the daylight brightness most of these fields use. Two identical blocks clear when the line joining them turns no more than twice.

Lof Games runs each level against the clock, so the board is a race rather than a study. Levels vary in difficulty instead of climbing in a straight line, which means a field that looks crowded is not automatically the harder one — the number of open routes matters more than the number of blocks. The Shisen Sho grid keeps the path rule and changes the pictures.

The advice that works here is to open the middle of the board first. Central blocks are the ones with no room for a turn, and leaving them until last is how a level ends with a handful of fruit that cannot be joined. A hint is there when the field stops giving anything up. What Is Onet Mahjong answers the questions this board raises.

The stage is 800 by 450 and takes touch as well as mouse input. The night-garden palette is the reason to use the full screen toggle: dark backgrounds swallow small blocks, and enlarged the produce reads clearly. Reading the edges first works in the Double Deuce grid too.

1. Look across the garden for two identical blocks.
2. Check the connecting line between them turns twice at most.
3. Click both to clear them.
4. Empty the field before the timer runs out to move up a level.
5. Call the hint when a crowded board stops offering pairs.

• Clear the centre early — middle blocks have the least room for a turn and strand you at the end.
• Prioritise easy matches — with the clock running, the pair you can see beats the pair you are hunting.
• Replay a level — the fields vary in difficulty, and a second run at one you lost is usually faster.
• Watch the dark faces — the night-garden background hides produce drawn in deep colours.
• Enlarge the board — full screen is the fix for a dim palette on a small stage.