How to play

Slide every tile on the 4×4 board at once. After each move a new tile lands in a random empty space. The Next preview shows you its color first.

Mixing and deepening

• Tiles only combine when they have the same number of dots.
• Two identical tiles deepen one shade and gain a dot.
• Two different colors mix when a recipe matches. The result keeps the same shade.
• Two shade 4 tiles of the same color clear each other for a bonus of four times their value.
• A tile can only be part of one merge per move.

Recipes in Easy

• OrangeRed+Yellow
• GreenYellow+Blue
• PurpleRed+Blue

More recipes in Hard and Daily

Hard and the Daily puzzle use all of the above, plus:

• VermilionRed+Orange
• AmberOrange+Yellow
• LimeYellow+Green
• TealGreen+Blue
• IndigoBlue+Purple
• MagentaRed+Purple

Orders

There are always three orders. When a merge makes the exact color and shade an order asks for, the tile ships: it leaves the board, you score five times its value, and a new order takes its place. Tiles only ship when they are freshly made, so sliding one around won't fill an order.

Orders get deeper and trickier the more you fill.

Scoring

• Primaries are worth 2, secondaries 4, tertiaries 8 at shade 1.
• Each extra shade doubles the value.
• A merge scores the value of the tile it makes.
• A filled order scores five times the tile's value, so a shade 1 Orange order pays 20.
• Clearing two shade 4 Red tiles pays 64.

Game over

The game ends when the board is full and no two neighbouring tiles can combine.