Candy Match3

Timed match-three plays almost opposite to the move-limited kind. With a clock running, the value of a match is partly its size and partly how quickly you found it, and a player who studies the board for five seconds to set up a four-match has usually lost more than they gained. The winning habit is keeping your hands moving: take adequate matches continuously and let cascades generate the big scores incidentally rather than hunting for them. Special tiles from four-and-five matches are worth taking when they appear naturally in your scanning, but detouring to construct one rarely pays inside a timer.

This title is best suited to players who want a fast, reflexive puzzle rather than a thoughtful one.

1. Swap adjacent candies to line up three or more and keep swapping continuously.
2. Take the adequate match you can see now rather than searching for a better one.
3. Let cascades produce your large scores; they happen far more often than constructed combos.
4. Grab special tiles when they fall into your path, but do not build toward them under a clock.

• Click or tap two adjacent tiles to swap, or drag one onto its neighbour

Objectives

• Score as highly as possible before the timer expires
• Maintain a continuous match rate rather than optimising individual moves

The run ends or fails when

• The timer running out below the target score
• Long pauses spent searching, which cost more than a small match gains

• Countdown timer making move rate part of the scoring
• Cascade chains that multiply score without deliberate setup
• Special tiles produced by four-or-more matches
• Continuous board refill with no move limit

• Speed beats optimisation here. This is the opposite of a move-limited puzzle, and playing it like one loses.
• If you have been staring for three seconds, take any legal match. Momentum is worth more than the perfect move.
• Scan the region where tiles just fell — new arrangements cluster there and are quickest to spot.

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