Gems

Gems is a free online match-3 puzzle: swap adjacent jewels to line up three or more of a kind and clear them for points. Cleared gems drop away and new ones cascade in, chaining combos for bigger scores. Play free with no download and no sign-up, on phone or desktop.

How to play

• Tap a gem, then tap an adjacent gem to swap the two.
• Or drag a gem straight onto the neighbour you want to swap it with.
• A swap is only allowed if it forms a line of three or more matching gems.
• Matched gems clear, the ones above fall down, and fresh gems fill the gaps.
• New matches created by the fall chain into cascades for bonus points.
• Keep making matches to climb past your best score.

Look for moves near the bottom of the board first — clearing low gems drops the whole stack above them and often triggers cascades you never planned. A swap that makes two lines at once (an L or T of the same colour) clears far more than a plain row of three. Since every match refills from the top, scan for setups where an incoming gem will land straight into another match.