Crystal Chaos: free match-3 score attack

About Crystal Chaos

Crystal Chaos is a free match-3 arcade game for short runs. You drag a path across a board of colored gems to match three or more of the same color, then watch new gems fall in and try to chain matches into a combo. It runs in your browser, and your score goes on a leaderboard under a callsign you pick.

How to play

1. Drag across neighboring gems of one color to draw a path of three or more, then let go.
2. The matched gems clear and gravity fills the gaps. If the new gems line up, that is a cascade and it scores more.
3. Gold gems score double and gray gems score half, so a short path of gold can beat a long gray one.
4. Each move has a timer of about ten seconds. If it runs out, the path you have drawn is submitted for you.
5. A standard run is five moves on a six by six board. Power-ups such as double points, color swap and bomb are limited, so save them for the right turn.

Tips

Matches near the bottom move more gems and set off longer cascades. Chain length matters because the combo multiplier climbs with each cascade up to a cap.

Questions

Is Crystal Chaos free?

Yes. It is free to play in your browser.

Do I swap gems?

No. You drag a path across gems of the same color. There is no swapping.

What does the combo multiplier do?

Each cascade after your first match raises the multiplier on that move, up to a maximum, so a long chain is worth far more than three separate matches.

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