Jelly Match 3
Only matches on coated squares count
Free to play, no install step
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What playing this feels like
Jelly Match 3 moves the objective from scoring to clearing ground. Squares on the board are coated, and a coating only disappears when a match happens on that exact square — near enough does not count.
That small difference rewrites the whole approach. A big satisfying match in the middle of the board achieves nothing if those squares were cleared several moves ago. The habit to build is spotting which squares remain and then working out how to make a match happen there specifically.
Corners are always the hard part, since fewer combinations can reach them. Anyone saving the corners for last usually runs out of moves first. The safer order is dealing with the awkward edges while moves are plentiful and leaving the middle until the end, where matches tend to form on their own anyway.