Cooking Tile

The tiles carry food patterns, and that decoration is doing more work than it appears: telling one dish from another at a glance is most of the difficulty. If the layout is new, the survey of the branches explains it.

Yizhiyuan Network Technology describe it as a blast game rather than a straight link game, and as easy to learn yet challenging to play out. The board fills a square 800 by 600 frame, the artwork is deliberately soft, and the pace is set by how quickly you can pick a target out of a crowded grid. The list this board belongs to also carries the Wallpaper Connect layout.

That is genuinely all the developer puts on record, and the rest is better learned on the board itself: a first run takes a couple of minutes and teaches the matching rule more clearly than any description would. The build is marked mobile-ready, so a tablet handles it as well as the desktop it was clearly drawn for. KrisMas Mahjong 2 is filed under the same heading here.

1. Open the board and look over the food patterns on the tiles.
2. Pick out a tile whose pattern repeats elsewhere in the grid.
3. Act on the group to clear it in the blast style the developer describes.
4. Keep working the grid down until the board is empty.

• Learn the artwork — the lovely patterns on the Cooking Tile pieces sit close enough that a quick glance can mislead.
• Start crowded — the dense middle of the grid is where options disappear first.
• Play a short run first — the published description is brief, and one board teaches the rest.
• Tablet friendly — the build is marked mobile-ready, and a square 800 by 600 frame suits a held screen.