Supermarket Sort N Match

There is no swapping and no grid here. The board is a set of shelves, and you move items between them until three identical ones stand on the same shelf — at which point that shelf clears and the shelves above slide down into the gap. Clear a whole stack and the shelves beside it shift too, which is where the bigger chains come from.

The catch is space. A shelf holds only so much, and an item moved to the wrong place is not just a wasted action — it is a slot you now cannot use. Good play looks like a lot of nothing early on, then a run of clears once the shelves have been sorted into something workable. Bad play looks busy from the first second and jams solid halfway through.

A timer runs over all of it, and the levels tighten it as they go. Later stages want the whole set of items collected before it expires, so the sorting phase has to be quick as well as correct.

1. Look across all shelves first and find which item already has two of a kind waiting.
2. Move items one at a time to bring a third identical item onto that shelf — the shelf then clears.
3. Keep at least one shelf loose as working space; a full board with nothing free is a dead board.
4. Clear entire stacks where you can, since that shifts the neighbouring shelves and opens the next set.

Before you move anything, count how many of each item are on screen. Items that appear only once or twice cannot be cleared yet, and parking them in the same corner keeps your usable space in one piece instead of scattered.