Xmas Float Connect 2023

Everything on this grid is one click away from its partner, provided the route between them bends through no more than two right angles. That is the contract in Xmas Float Connect 2023. The guide to connect boards takes the same rules apart step by step.

The edition earns its name from what happens after a pair goes. On the float levels the remaining Xmas items travel, towards the bottom, the top, one side, the centre, or apart down the middle, and each of those behaviours asks for a different order of clearing. A board that gathers to the centre rewards emptying the outside; a board that splits rewards patience. GamesFine.com counts out 27 stages of it and attaches a clock to each, with an extra bonus for a stage finished early. The corridor habit carries straight over to the Woodventure board.

The window is a tall 1280 by 960, and the Xmas set answers to taps. The line between two tiles decides the match in Onet Connect as well.

1. Spot two Xmas items on the grid showing the same picture.
2. Confirm the path between them uses two right angles at most.
3. Click each in turn to clear the pair, then see how the rest of the board settles.
4. Finish the stage before the clock stops for the bonus, then take the next of the 27.

• Read the level's habit first — Xmas Float Connect 2023 gives each float level its own direction, and one clear tells you which one you are on.
• Right angles, not distance — two bends is the allowance, so the far side of the grid is often nearer than the item behind a wall.
• Bank the early bonus — the clock rewards a stage closed quickly, and the easy opening pairs are where that time is won.
• Wait out the split — when a board separates down the middle, items that were blocked frequently end up facing each other across the gap.