Hawaii Match 5

About this page. The game loaded here is Hawaii Match 5 by SOFTGAMES, served through GameDistribution. The page carried no working game before, so the title it was named after now actually runs on it.

The number in the name is the whole difference. Where most boards pay out at three, this one sets its goals around forming rows of five or more symbols, so a move that would end a turn elsewhere is only the start of one here.

That changes how a level is read. Fruit and flowers have to be gathered into long runs before anything worthwhile happens, and since each level hands you a limited number of moves, the question is never can I match but can I match while still meeting the goal. Boosters exist for the moments when the answer is no, and combining symbols is what earns them.

With several thousand levels behind it, the run is long enough that it never really presents itself as something to finish — it is a board to return to.

1. Read the goal first: it tells you which symbols the level is counting.
2. Swap neighbouring symbols to build runs, aiming past three towards five.
3. Spend moves on the goal symbol rather than on whatever clears easiest.
4. Save a booster for a level that stalls two or three moves from its target.

Count your remaining moves against what the goal still needs before every swap. Levels here are lost by drifting — clearing whatever is convenient until the move counter runs out with the goal half-finished.