Spring Tile Master

Blooming flowers, coloured leaves and small insects cover the tiles of Spring Tile Master, and they are drawn off the board into a holding stack rather than cleared where they lie. How that works is written out in the solitaire rules page.

Three of a kind inside that stack is what removes them, and the stack holds nine. The arithmetic is unforgiving: nine slots, three needed per set, so at most three sets can be in progress at any moment, and a fourth unmatched flower is where trouble starts. A shuffle is on hand for when the board stops offering what the stack needs, and collecting every tile on a board is what unlocks the next one. Pairs leave the stack the same way in Mahjong Blitz.

Lof Games draws the spring set brightly enough that the insects and the leaves stay easy to tell apart, and taps work as well as clicks. Only tiles with an open side move in the Miracle board too.

1. Look over the spring board and find a motif you can see more than once.
2. Draw that tile into your stack, which holds up to nine.
3. Collect three of the same motif and the set leaves the stack.
4. Clear every tile on the board to unlock the next level.

• Keep three sets going — nine slots divide into exactly three sets in Spring Tile Master, and starting a fourth is what fills the stack.
• Shuffle before you are stuck — the rearrangement is more useful while you still have slots free than after they are all committed.
• Read the insects carefully — the beetles and butterflies repeat in similar colours, and a wrong draw costs a slot you cannot get back cheaply.
• Clear the whole board — the next level only opens when every tile has been collected, so stray singles are what hold you up.