Fruit Slash

🕹️How do you play Fruit Slash online?

1. 1Hold down the mouse button, or press a finger to the screen, and swipe across a fruit to cut it.
2. 2The blade follows your pointer, so long diagonal strokes catch more fruit than short flicks.
3. 3Slice three or more fruit inside a single swipe to trigger a combo bonus — the bigger the swipe, the bigger the bonus.
4. 4Cut straight through the middle of a fruit for a critical slice, worth two extra points and a spark.
5. 5Never touch a bomb. In Classic it ends the run at once; in Arcade it costs points and breaks your combo.
6. 6In Classic, a fruit that reaches the bottom unsliced costs one of your three lives.

📋What are the rules of Fruit Slash?

• ▸Fruit is worth 2 to 4 points depending on the kind — a strawberry or a pineapple scores double an orange.
• ▸A critical slice, one that passes within about a fifth of a radius of the centre, adds two points on top.
• ▸A combo needs three or more fruit inside one swipe window, and pays five points per fruit in it.
• ▸Bombs never appear during a frenzy, so the fruit storm is always safe to swing at freely.
• ▸The freeze crystal slows the world to 45% for five seconds but the clock keeps running at normal speed.
• ▸Double points lasts eight seconds and doubles both fruit scores and combo bonuses.
• ▸Difficulty ramps with time played: waves get larger, gaps get shorter, and bombs get more common up to a ceiling.

💡What are the best tips for winning at Fruit Slash?

• ★Swipe in long diagonals rather than short jabs. The combo bonus is per swipe, and a diagonal crosses more of the arc than a horizontal line.
• ★Cut fruit at the top of its arc. It hangs there almost motionless for a moment, which is where multi-fruit swipes are actually made.
• ★When a bomb sits in the middle of a cluster, take the fruit on one side and let the rest fall. In Classic, two points are never worth the run.
• ★Aim for the centre of the fruit, not the edge — critical slices add up faster than the extra fruit you catch by skimming.
• ★Save the ice crystal for a crowded sky. Slicing it while only two fruit are up wastes most of its five seconds.
• ★In Zen, deliberately let the first fruit of a wave pass and cut the whole wave on the way down in one stroke.

ℹ️What is Fruit Slash?

Fruit Slash belongs to the swipe-to-slice arcade genre — a lane of tossed fruit, a blade that follows your finger, and one rule that turns a simple reflex test into a game: bombs go up with everything else. What separates a good one from a shallow one is the cutting itself, and this version puts most of its effort there. Every fruit is drawn from geometry rather than sprites, so a cut is a real geometric event: the blade angle is measured from the segment your pointer actually travelled, each fruit splits into two halves along that exact line, and the halves fly apart perpendicular to it while keeping the momentum they already had — a melon cut on the way up still travels up. Slicing is resolved against the full pointer path collected since the last frame, including sub-frame samples where the browser provides them, which is why a fast flick across five fruit registers as five cuts rather than one. The three modes ask for different things. Classic is the pressure mode: three lives, every dropped fruit costs one, and a single bomb ends everything, so it rewards restraint as much as speed. Arcade is a 60-second scoring sprint with three drops in the mix — a frenzy banana that fills the sky with fruit and suspends bombs, an ice crystal that slows the world without slowing the clock, and a coin that doubles everything for eight seconds. Zen strips out the bombs and the lives entirely: 90 seconds, nothing to lose, and the only thing worth chasing is a cleaner combo. Scores are kept per mode in your browser.