Fruit Merge Arena

Fruit Merge Arena follows the drop-and-combine pattern with the watermelon as the end point. You let fruit fall onto the board, and two of the same kind merge into the next, larger fruit. Working up the ladder one size at a time is the plan, and reaching a watermelon is the stated win.

Space is the pressure. The developer warns that the board can fill up fast, and you only stay in the game while merges keep making room. If you get stuck there is a way out that depends on advertising: watching a rewarded ad lets you pick one kind of fruit and clear every copy of it from the board. That is optional, and it is the only helper the developer describes. The frame is tall and narrow, at 450 by 800, which suits a phone held upright.

Move the mouse to aim where the next fruit will land, then click to drop it. On a touch screen, tap to drop. When a fruit lands against an identical one, the pair merge into a bigger fruit. Keep merging one step at a time towards the watermelon. If space runs short, you can watch a reward ad and choose a fruit type to remove entirely.

Treat the ad-based clear as a last resort for when the board is nearly full, and choose the fruit type taking up the most room, because every copy of it goes. Beyond that, the developer's advice is to plan each drop, since running out of space is what brings a run to an end.

A fruit drop-and-merge puzzle in a portrait frame. The instructions mention aiming with the mouse and clicking, or tapping, to drop. Reaching a watermelon is the goal. An optional rewarded advert can clear all fruit of one chosen type.

Fruit Merge : Juice Jumble gives you five sideways shifts per side instead of an ad-based clear, and Watermelon Stack 3D has you throw fruit into a bowl you can rotate around, through 11 fruit types.