Gem CrushMatch 3 Game

🕹️How do you play Gem Crush online?

1. 1Pick a mode: Journey (60 levels), Daily Challenge, Time Rush or Zen.
2. 2In a Journey or Daily level, read the goals on the start card — for example collect 20 blue gems, break all the ice or break every chain — and note the move limit.
3. 3Swipe a gem into the gem next to it, or tap one gem and then its neighbour, to swap them. The swap only counts if it lines up three or more gems of the same colour; otherwise the gems slide back and no move is used.
4. 4Matched gems disappear, the gems above fall into the gaps and new gems drop in from the top. When falling gems form new matches, they clear automatically as a chain.
5. 5Match four in a line to make a Line gem, match in an L or T shape to make a Bomb gem, and match five in a line to make a Rainbow gem. Use them in later matches, or swap two of them together for a combo.
6. 6Finish every goal before the moves run out. Moves you have left turn into Line gems for a Bonus Blast, which adds points toward two and three stars.
7. 7Stuck? After a few idle seconds a hint highlights a good swap, and the Hint button shows one at any time. If no swap is possible, the board shuffles itself.

📋What are the rules of Gem Crush?

• ▸The board is an 8×8 grid. Some levels have holes, and gems fall straight through them.
• ▸There are six gem colours and each has its own shape — diamond, hexagon, star, triangle, round and heart — so gems can be told apart without relying on colour. Many early levels use five colours.
• ▸A swap must create a match of three or more. A swap that matches nothing is undone and costs no move. Chained gems and stone blocks cannot be swapped.
• ▸Line gem (4 in a row): clears its whole row if the match was horizontal, or its whole column if it was vertical. Bomb gem (L, T or + shape): clears every cell within two steps. Rainbow gem (5 in a row): swapped with a gem, it clears every gem of that colour; set off by a blast, it clears the most common colour on the board.
• ▸Swapping two special gems together fires a combo: Line + Line clears a row and a column, Line + Bomb three rows and three columns, Bomb + Bomb every cell within three steps, Rainbow + Line or Bomb turns every gem of that colour into that special and fires them all, and Rainbow + Rainbow clears the whole board.
• ▸Ice sits under a gem and breaks when that gem is cleared; thick ice needs two clears. A chain holds a gem in place, and one match or blast breaks the chain but leaves the gem. Stone fills a cell and cracks when you match directly beside it or blast it; iron-banded stone takes two hits.
• ▸Scoring: 10 points per gem, 20 per ice layer, chain or stone hit, plus 30 for a plain match, 60 for making a Line gem, 100 for a Bomb gem and 150 for a Rainbow gem. Each wave of a chain multiplies its points — ×2 for the second wave, ×3 for the third, up to ×5.
• ▸Completing the goals earns one star; reaching the level's two- and three-star scores earns the rest. Running out of moves ends the attempt, with a one-time offer of five more moves for coins.

💡What are the best tips for winning at Gem Crush?

• ★Make matches near the bottom of the board when you can: more gems fall afterwards, so chains are more likely.
• ★Look for L and T shapes before settling for a plain three — a Bomb gem is worth far more than a simple match.
• ★Don't fire a special gem the moment you make it. Move two specials next to each other and swap them together; Line + Bomb clears three rows and three columns at once.
• ★On stone levels, match directly beside the blocks (diagonal matches do not count) or line up a Line gem along their row or column.
• ★Break chains early. A chained gem holds up every gem above it, and the cells below only refill by gems sliding in from the sides.
• ★Save moves: every unused move becomes a Line gem in the Bonus Blast, which is often the difference between two stars and three.
• ★In Time Rush, special gems pay twice — each one you create adds two seconds to the clock, up to 30 extra seconds per run.

ℹ️What is Gem Crush?

Gem Crush belongs to the match-3 genre, which goes back to Shariki (1994) and reached a huge audience through Bejeweled (2001) and, later, level-based games such as Candy Crush Saga (2012). The PapoGames version is written from scratch for the browser and draws everything — gems, obstacles and six animated backgrounds — in code, so there is nothing to install. The Journey has 60 levels in six worlds, and each world adds one idea: Crystal Meadow teaches the special gems, Ruby Caverns adds ice, Sapphire Lagoon adds chained gems, Golden Dunes adds stone blocks, Frost Peaks brings double-strength ice and stone on shaped boards, and Cosmic Abyss mixes all of them, mostly with six colours. Move limits were checked by a script that plays every level 200 times with a simple bot, and the two- and three-star scores come from those runs rather than guesswork. Outside the Journey, the Daily Challenge gives everyone the same starting board for the calendar day and tracks your streak, Time Rush is a 90-second score attack where each special gem you create adds two seconds (up to 30 extra seconds), and Zen has no move limit and no way to lose. Coins earned from stars, the daily puzzle and Time Rush pay for a Hammer, a Shuffle or five extra moves; nothing is sold for real money. Progress, coins and settings are stored only in your browser.