FISHCONNECT

The grid here is a stated size rather than a vague layout: six by twelve, and knowing that before you start changes how you read the board. The connect-tips guide takes the same rules apart step by step.

Every tile has to leave in a pair, and the path joining two matching fish may bend at no more than two corners. That is the standard connect restriction, but on a grid this tall the vertical runs are long, so a pair sitting many rows apart in the same column is legal with no corners at all while a pair two tiles apart around an obstruction may not be. Reading the edges first works in the Connect Halloween board too.

A clock runs throughout, and the developer leans on that pressure deliberately — the tension is the point rather than an afterthought. The build is 800 by 600 and mobile-ready. Most failed boards come from taking every easy pair on the outside first and leaving a solid block in the middle with no legal route through it. The Happy Fruit Link grid is the nearest flat-board neighbour of this one here.

1. Look over the six by twelve grid of fish tiles.
2. Find two tiles showing the same fish.
3. Check the path between them bends at two corners or fewer.
4. Connect the pair to remove it, and clear the whole grid before time runs out.

• Use the columns — a tall FISHCONNECT grid means long straight vertical links that need no corners.
• Two corners, no more — a third bend makes the connection illegal however close the tiles are.
• Do not strip the edges — clearing the outside first leaves a locked block in the middle.
• The clock is always on — each level has to be finished before time runs out.