Tile Connect

MarketJS is precise about what Tile Connect is not: a match-two board, explicitly not a match-three, and the distinction runs through every rule on it. If the layout is new, the map of the variants explains it.

Two identical fruit tiles go at a time, and the route joining them must use fewer than three lines — tighter than the three-corner allowance some link boards permit. The developer frames the appeal as spatial training rather than pattern-swapping, which is a fair description of what the eye actually does here: you are measuring whether a two-segment path exists, not scanning for runs of one colour. Next to it in the same group is the Candy layout.

The set is randomised on every play, so a layout that beat you is not the one waiting when you come back, and MarketJS calls the pool a huge one. At 960 by 540 the fruit art is broad and flat, which keeps neighbouring pieces distinct at speed. The Space Pet Link layout occupies the neighbouring slot in the catalogue.

1. Find two fruit tiles showing the same image.
2. Click one and then the other to draw the connection.
3. Check the path uses fewer than three lines, since only two tiles join per connection.
4. Empty the randomised set, then start a fresh layout that will not repeat the last.

• Two tiles, never three — Tile Connect is a declared match-two board, so a trio of matching fruit still goes in pairs.
• Count the lines — a route is legal only under three lines, which rules out long detours around the middle.
• Do not memorise a layout — the set is randomised every play, so learned positions are wasted effort.
• Use the width — the 960 by 540 frame is broad and shallow, and horizontal runs are usually the cheaper joins.