This is a connect 3 game applying principles inspired by Tetris and live-removing games. Clear rows of 3 or more identical gems by moving the gems 2 at a time.
Unlike most line-breaking games, the gems you must remove appear from the bottom up.
You can only move gems horizontally. Use empty spaces to move gems down.
Don’t let the stack reach the top of the screen.
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Gem Switch Game for Kids Video Game Play Instructions
How to Play
Switch the gems around. Form rows of 3 or more identical gems to remove them from the stack. Keep removing rows of gems to keep the stack from reaching the top of the screen.
Starting the Game
The game is immediately playable once it loads.
Your web browser automatically saves your game progress.
Game Controls
Desktop
With your mouse, left click on the buttons to operate the controls.
Alternately, you can play using your keyboard:
Use the arrows to move the selector up and down.
Use the space bar to switch the gems highlighted by the selector.
Touchscreen devices
Tap on the buttons with your fingers to operate them.
Controls and indicators
Top row (left to right)
Speaker button: Turns the game’s audio on and off
Best score
Current score
Day/Night mode button: Lets you choose between a light-colored and dark-colored version of the game screen
Middle left edge (top-down)
Timer
Level number
Current score
Bottom row (left to right)
Switch button
Arrows
Game Play
Basic rules
Switch the position of the gems to group them according to color.
Move the selector around the stack to find gems you want to move.
Click or tap on the switch button or use the space bar to have the two gems inside the selector switch places.
The selector is horizontally oriented; you can only move the gems sideways.
You can also have gems switch places with an empty space.
If the gem moves to a space with nothing below it, it will fall down.
Any gem above the empty space will fall down.
The stack slowly rises from the bottom of the playing field.
If the stack reaches the top of the screen, the game ends.
The stack temporarily stops rising when you clear a row. This will be useful in keeping it under control.
Keep removing as many lines as you can before the stack reaches the top.
Form rows of 3 or more identically colored to clear them from the stack.
Scoring
You earn a number of points for every row you remove.
The more gems you clear per row, the more point you earn per move.
Your high score is updated in real time.
Tips
Edges
Items from the middle columns can be matched across, or moved into columns on either side.
Edge columns can only move in one direction, meaning the nature of the game is the end columns will end up higher than the middle columns.
Try to make plays on the edge columns whenever possible to help knock them down.
Dropping pieces
If some columns are far higher than neighboring columns you can swap pieces in such a way that you pull the piece from the high column with an empty space in the adjacent column. This moves the gem into the shorter column, to help make the column heights more level.
You can create a vertical match of gems from either direction where there was once a far lower column than the adjacent columns.
Target Audience
The game is suited for players who like connect 3 games.
The game has no adult themed content.
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Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support
This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.
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