Merge Monsters

Merge Monsters is a card-stacking merge puzzle. The table has four stacks of numbered monster cards, and you move cards from one stack to another to bring equal numbers together. When matching values meet, they merge into a bigger number and a new monster turns up, so the collection grows as the numbers rise.

The rule that shapes every move is that cards travel with whatever is on top of them. Pick up a card partway down a stack and the cards above it come along too. Space in the stacks is limited, and the developer says a well-chosen merge is how you free some up again. You earn coins along the way, and there are boosters to fall back on when you are stuck. It runs with a mouse on desktop or by touch on mobile.

Press and hold a monster card, with the mouse or a finger, then drag it to another of the four stacks and let go. Any cards sitting on top of it move with it. When matching numbers are brought together they merge into a bigger monster. Try to keep free space in the stacks, and use a booster when you need one.

Because the cards above a moved card come with it, check the whole run you are lifting, and not only the card you grabbed, before dropping it on another stack. The developer's note is that a good merge makes room for the next move, so favour moves that combine cards over ones that just shuffle them.

A numbered card merge puzzle with a monster theme, in a landscape frame. There are four stacks, coins and boosters. The developer lists mouse and touch controls, for desktop and mobile respectively.

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