Fruit Cottage

How to play

1. Tap a fruit to let it go. With a clear way down it falls, runs down a roof and lands in your basket.
2. Two alike, one on the other in the basket, clear at once.
3. A fruit with no twin under it waits in the basket. Only the one on top can be paired, so free its twin before you add another.
4. A fruit falls only through a gap it fits. In a narrower one it is caught, and it falls on when a fruit holding it is let go.
5. A tall pile sinks as its lowest fruit goes, and brings the fruit above it into view.
6. The basket holds four. If a fourth fruit lands without clearing, the level is laid out again as it was.
7. From level 2 some fruit are frosted: a frosted fruit can’t be let go until a fruit touching it has been, and thick frost, with two rings of ice, waits for two.
8. Some fruit hang on a washing line, which moves along every time you let a fruit go, or on a cartwheel, which turns. The gaps between them open and close as they move.
9. A fruit in a ring of colours turns into another kind every time you let a fruit go, and keeps the one it shows when it falls.
10. Two keys stand beside the basket. Hint rings a fruit worth letting go; Refresh deals the fruit still in the pile again. A level begins with none of either and gives two hints and one refresh at most: a hint at 10 pairs cleared, a second hint and the refresh at 20.
11. Take every fruit to clear the level.

What it trains

• No clock and no move limit: there is time to look at the gaps before each tap, so a level is worked out, not guessed.
• Each level can be cleared, and a full basket only puts the same fruit back for another go.
• Two hints and a refresh are earned in every level, for the moment nothing seems to fit.
• A tune the fruit plays along to, with a switch for the music and another for the sound effects.