Sweets Merge

Sweets Merge is a board-based merge puzzle with a dessert theme. Sweets sit on the board, and you combine identical ones to make the next treat up the chain. It begins with simple sweets and works up, one merge at a time, to cakes, chocolates, doughnuts and other desserts.

You can drag a sweet to a different spot on the board as well as onto a match. Merging happens when you release one sweet directly over another that is the same. The developer says the game is simple to learn and gets harder as the board fills, because space is the real limit. Running out of room is the thing to avoid, so where you park a sweet matters as much as what you eventually merge it with. Each move counts, in the developer's words.

Click a sweet and drag it to move it around the board. To merge, release it over another sweet that is exactly the same; the pair becomes a single dessert of a higher level. Keep going to reach cakes, chocolates and doughnuts. Plan where each sweet goes so the board does not run out of space before you can merge again.

Since you can move a sweet to an empty spot as well as onto a match, use that to keep identical sweets near each other ahead of time, instead of hunting for pairs across the board. The developer's point about space is the one to remember: every placement either keeps room open or uses it up.

A drag-and-merge dessert puzzle in a landscape frame, played by clicking and dragging. Treats named include cakes, chocolates and doughnuts. The developer says difficulty rises as the board fills, and running out of space is the danger.

Halloween Merge uses the same drag-onto-a-match move with pumpkins and potions, and Merge Monsters has you drag numbered monster cards between four stacks to merge equal values.