Fruit Drops - Match three game

Fruit Drops - Match three puzzle begins as a simple
match three board game and gradually increases
difficulties as obstacles are added and level
objectives becomes more challenging.

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There are three possible objectives on each level.

1. Score quota
2. Removing dark pulps
3. Bringing down popsicles.

There are two possible challenges on each level.

1. Complete the objective before time runs out.
2. Complete the objective before you run out of swaps.

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Obstacles.

1. Fruit crate and Fruit pie: A Fruit crate or Fruit Pie can not be moved, can only be
cleared if an adjacent fruit is cleared or if a fruit
jar or a double fruit power up is triggered.


Matching 4 or more fruits rewards the player with
a power up fruit There are 3 power ups.

1. Fruit jar (horizontal and vertical orientation).
2. Double fruit.
3. Sunflower.

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Fruit jar power up.


To create a fruit jar you need to match 4 candies in a row or column.

Matching a fruit jar with 2 other fruit of the
same type will trigger the power up.

Fruit jar when triggered will clear the row or column depending on the orientation.

1. Horizontal jar is created when 4 fruits are
matched in the same column.
2. Vertical jar is created when 4 fruits are matched
in the same row.

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Double fruit power up.

To create a double fruit, you need to match intersecting
fruits of the same type in a column and row,

Matching a double fruit with 2 other fruits of the
same type will trigger the power up.

Double fruit when triggered will clear the adjacent
fruits around the double fruit.


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Sunflower power up.

There are two possible ways to create the Sunflower power up.

1. Matching 5 fruits of the same type.
2. Matching 2 types of fruits in one swap in a single row or column.

Swapping a Sunflower with a regular fruit,
will clear all the regular fruit of the same type.

Swapping a Sunflower with fruit jar, will
transform all the regular fruit of the same type
to a fruit jar power up and triggers the fruit
jar power up.

Swapping a Sunflower with a double fruit will
transform all the regular fruit of the same type
to a double fruit power up and triggers the
double fruit power up.

Swapping a Sunflower with another Sunflower
will clear all the fruits.

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Power ups can be swapped with any other power ups.

Fruit jar swapped with another Fruit jar clears
all the fruits in a row and column

double fruit swapped with another double fruit clears
a seven by seven block of fruits. ( 7 rows x 7 columns)

Fruit jar swapped with a double fruit clears
three vertical rows of fruit and 3 horizontal columns
of fruits.

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Objectives.

1. Score quota - You need to reach a certain score in order to level up.

2. Remove dark pulps.

dark pulps are removed by clearing the fruit ontop of the dark pulp.
There are 3 levels of dark pulps. The darkest pulp needs to be removed
3 times, which means you need clear 3 fruits ontop of that dark pulp.

Fruit crates also creates a level 3 dark pulp and needs to be cleared.

3. Bring down the popsicle.

Bring down the popsicle to the bottom of the
gameboard to level up.

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Challenges.

1. Time challenged.

Complete the objective(s) before time runs out.

2. Swap limit.

Complete the objective(s) before you run out of swaps.

Obstacles.

1. Fruit crate

A Fruit crate can only be cleared by clearing out
an adjacent fruit. Once the fruit crate is cleared it becomes
a level 3 dark pulp and remains in the board until it’s cleared