Farm Connect 2

The grid is stocked from a farm. Apples, carrots, aubergines, milk churns, watermelons and sunflowers fill it in flat bright colours, repeated across a rectangle of tiles that fills as the difficulty climbs.

Linking is the mechanic. Two identical items clear when a path can join them with no more than two bends and nothing standing in the way, which leaves the produce in the middle of a full grid effectively frozen until its neighbours go. Shuigo sits on the same shelf of gentler boards.

Levels are timed and the difficulty is adjustable, so the same board can be a gentle warm-up or a genuine scramble. The higher settings pack the grid more tightly, and the two-bend limit bites hardest exactly then. The reasoning behind the move order is in Mahjong Solitaire vs Connect.

A hint and a shuffle are available for the moments when nothing links at all. The habit worth forming is to open the border first, since a cleared edge gives every later path the room it needs to bend. This 2016 build sits comfortably in full screen, and it accepts taps as readily as clicks. Another board from the same undemanding group is the Farm Connect board.

1. Find two identical farm items anywhere on the grid.
2. Check that a line can reach between them with no more than two bends.
3. Make sure no other item blocks that path.
4. Click the pair to clear it.
5. Empty the grid before the level timer runs out to advance.

• Cut the edges open first — a border item needs a short path, and removing it gives interior pairs somewhere to route.
• Count bends before you commit — two is the maximum, and a route needing three is not a link.
• Drop the difficulty to learn a layout — the settings change how densely the produce is packed.
• Keep the pace up — every level carries its own clock, and the last few pairs are always the slowest to find.
• Reach for the shuffle only when stuck — a grid with links still available does not need rearranging.