Jelly Friend Smash

The board is jellies and the objective is a delivery: every character has to be sent home, and matching lines of three or more is how you move them. That makes it a goal-based board rather than a score chase, and the difference shows in which matches are worth making.

Characters sit in particular places, so the useful clear is the one near them, not the one that removes the most pieces. A level where you scored heavily and moved nobody home is a level you are about to fail — the counter that matters is the number of characters still waiting.

Mechanically it stays close to the classic swap board, which the game says outright, and that familiarity is deliberate: the twist is the objective, not the action, so nothing has to be learned before the first move.

1. Find where the characters are before choosing a move.
2. Swap two adjacent jellies to match lines of three or more.
3. Clear near the characters to move them along, not wherever the board is fullest.
4. Send them all home to finish the level.

Count the characters left rather than watching the score. Scoring well while nobody moves is the standard way to lose one of these boards, and the score gives you no warning that it is happening.