Mojicon Love Connect

Mojicon Love Connect is the largest board in the Mojicon line to date, and the pieces you are pairing off are sweets: chocolates and confectionery scattered through an animal-kingdom setting dressed for the Valentine season. The beginner rules page answers the questions this board raises.

Progress runs by level, and the makers promise the levels grow difficult rather than staying gentle throughout. What they do not mention is a countdown, a hint or a shuffle, so none of the three is claimed on this page; the safest assumption before you start is that the board asks for matched pairs and patience and nothing more. Connecting puzzles of this shape generally reward clearing the outer sweets first, since edge pieces have the room that the middle ones lack. Retro Mahjong shares this board’s place in the catalogue.

The stage is compact enough to keep the whole spread of sweets on screen at once, and it takes taps as well as clicks. For a different season, there is the Mojicon Spring Connect board.

1. Let the level load and look over the sweets laid out across it.
2. Find two of the same confectionery and select them one after the other.
3. Clear the pairs until nothing sweet is left on the board.
4. Move on to the next level, which will be harder than the one before.

• Sweep the edges first — outer sweets in Mojicon Love Connect are the ones with open room around them.
• Tell the chocolates apart — several confections in the set are drawn in close shades, and a misread is a wasted move.
• Read the whole spread — the board fits on one screen, so a scan before your first pick costs nothing.
• Expect the difficulty to climb — the levels are built to get harder, and the habits that carried an early board will not carry a late one.