Fruit Slide
Fruit keeps dropping into the tray — slide two of a kind together and watch them grow.
How to play
- Fruit drops in from the top of the tray, a little faster as the run goes on. The faint fruit at the top shows where the next one will come in.
- Drag any fruit left or right — even one that is still falling — or pull it down to drop it sooner. The arrow keys steer the falling fruit too.
- Two of the same fruit that touch merge into the next one up the chain. Bigger fruit takes up more cells, and a merge that opens a gap can set off another.
- Once bigger fruit is growing, the smallest stops dropping and leaves the tray. Your first peach and your first watermelon each widen the tray by a column. The run ends when a new fruit has no room at the top.
What it trains
- Planning a step ahead — where a fruit lands decides what it can merge with next
- Fitting shapes: tall, wide and square fruit each need a different kind of gap
- Quick decisions under a gentle clock that speeds up as the run goes on
Play Fruit Slide, a free fruit merge game, online in your browser: jelly fruit drops into a wooden tray, and you can slide any piece left or right — even one that has already landed. Two of the same that touch merge into the next fruit up, from blueberries and strawberries through pears, bananas and pineapples to a whole fruit basket. Bigger fruit needs more room, so the tray gains a column at your first peach and again at your first watermelon; the run goes on until the tray is full.
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