Fruit Merge Box▶Play

When two of the same fruit touch, they merge into the next bigger fruit and add points. The progression is: grape → cherry → strawberry → kiwi → lime → orange → apple → peach → melon → pineapple → watermelon.

Larger merges score much more. Two watermelons clear each other for a big bonus.

If any fruit sits above the red line for more than a moment, the box overflows and the game ends.

Tips & strategy

Build a size gradient instead of layers. Park the big fruit along one wall and the floor next to it, getting smaller toward the open side of the box, so the small, frequent fruit stay on top where new drops can reach them. Never bury a small fruit under a bigger one — a grape trapped under an apple can only get out when that apple merges away, which may never happen. The worst position is a lone medium fruit sitting on top of unmatched neighbours, blocking the way to its partner.

Think twice before placing anything in the middle of the box. The corners and walls give you a backstop to roll smaller fruits into a tight pile, while a fruit dropped centre-board tends to sit on top of whatever is below and create plateaus you can't easily clear. Save the centre for merges you've already lined up.

There is no chain bonus: every merge pays the square of the new fruit's rank on its own — 4 for a cherry, 16 for a kiwi, 36 for an orange, up to 121 for a watermelon and 400 when two watermelons meet. Small merges happen far more often than big ones, so most of a run's points come from the steady stream of small and medium merges; keep collecting them. Cascades are still worth setting up, not for extra points but because every merge frees space — plan drops so the larger fruit a merge creates appears next to its own match, not isolated.