Fresh N Fresh Tiles

Fresh N Fresh Tiles is the tray variant: fruit tiles are not removed where they lie but moved down into a strip at the bottom of the screen, and three of a kind sitting in that strip cancel out. The strip holds only a few tiles, and filling it with singletons is how a run ends. The Butterfly Kyodai board keeps company with this board in the catalogue.

So the real resource is space, not time. Every tile you send down is a bet that its two partners are reachable before the strip is full, and the boards are built to punish optimism — a fruit whose duplicates are buried on separate layers will sit there consuming a slot for the rest of the level. Boosters and hints exist to buy a slot back when that happens. For a board of the same kind, see Mahjongg Candy Cane.

Difficulty climbs board by board through the 2023 set from WillingGames.com. The layout is portrait at 720 by 1080 and driven with the mouse, which on a desktop means a narrow column in the middle of a wide monitor unless full screen is switched on — worth doing, since the fruit icons repeat in similar reds and greens. The Resize board keeps the pace of this one.

1. Look at the pile and count how many copies of a fruit are actually reachable.
2. Move a tile down into the strip at the bottom of the screen.
3. Collect three of the same fruit in the strip and they clear together.
4. Spend a booster or a hint when the strip is filling with unmatched tiles.
5. Empty the fruit pile before the strip runs out of space.

• Count before you commit — Fresh N Fresh Tiles gives no way to take a tile back out of the strip.
• Keep slots free — in Fresh N Fresh Tiles space, not a clock, ends a run.
• Send trios together — three quick picks clear immediately and cost nothing.
• Boosters buy room — save them for a jammed strip rather than a slow board.
• Turn on full screen — the portrait board is a thin column on a desktop monitor.