Merge Drop

Drop numbered tiles into columns. Adjacent same numbers merge into double — chain combos for a huge score.

How to play

Tap any column to drop the next tile into it. The tile falls to the lowest empty spot.

If any 4-direction neighbor (up/down/left/right) has the same number, the whole connected group of equal tiles collapses into a single tile of double the value, placed at the landing spot. Tiles above fall by gravity, and any new neighbors with the same value chain into another merge — large cascades are where high scores come from.

The game ends if you try to drop into a column that's already full to the top.

Tips & strategy

Think of the board as setting up dominoes, not picking the next move in isolation. The biggest scores come from a single drop triggering four or five cascading merges — that only happens when you've already lined up matching values stacked vertically, with the right value on the bottom and equals on either side. Practice noticing groups of three same-value tiles in an L shape and recognising that one well-placed tile turns them into a single double.

Keep the small numbers near the bottom and let larger ones stack on top, because gravity favours that arrangement after every merge. If a 2 ends up halfway up the board surrounded by 16s, it's effectively dead weight that you have to merge around for many turns. When in doubt, drop small values into the same column as other small values rather than scattering them — even a doubling from 2 to 4 frees space, while a lone 2 next to four 16s blocks future cascades.

Watch the next-tile preview before you choose your column. A doubled tile lands at the drop position, so you can plan two moves ahead: drop the current tile so it merges to value X, knowing next is also X, then drop next next to that result for an automatic second merge. The longer the chain you can set up across two or three drops, the further your score outruns anyone playing one move at a time.