Yummy Tales

Oscar, a small and rather pleased-with-himself dog, runs the farm in Yummy Tales, and the animals are hungry. Feeding them means clearing produce: match three or more fruits or vegetables of the same kind and they come off the board. Keep going until the animals are full, which is the level goal stated up front, and the level is yours.

The pressure here is not a clock but a move counter. Every swap costs one, and the goal is fixed, so a level is lost by wandering — taking whichever match your eye lands on first — rather than by playing slowly. Reading the goal before your first move is not a formality: a level asking for carrots is a completely different board from a level asking for a high count of anything, and the good openings are in different places.

There is a lot of it. The run stretches past nine hundred levels, with daily missions and challenges layered on top that pay out coins and boosters, so the difficulty climbs gently rather than in jumps.

1. Read the level goal first — it names which produce you need and how much of it.
2. Swap two neighbouring pieces to line up three or more of the same kind.
3. Count your remaining moves against what the goal still needs; a match that does not serve the goal is a move spent.
4. Collect the daily missions and challenges for coins and boosters, and keep the boosters for a level that has actually stalled.

Matches made low on the board are worth more than the same match made high, because everything above them shifts and can settle into a second clear. On a tight move counter that free extra match is usually where the level is won.