Droptide: Drop Merge Puzzle

Droptide is a drop-and-merge puzzle set in a bioluminescent tidepool. Drag to aim. Let go. Two creatures of the same kind touch and fuse into something larger — a Spark becomes a Drifter, a Drifter a Bloom, on up through nine tiers to the Leviathan at the end of the chain. The pile grows as you play. Keep it below the line. That is the whole rule. Everything after it is what the water does with it. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Tide — no clock at all. Take as long as you like over every drop. Riptide — two and a half seconds a creature, then the water takes it, aimed or not. Auto — nobody plays. The pool blooms on its own, at half speed or triple, and you watch. Same gravity, same current, same danger line in all three. The only thing that changes between them is who lets go of the creature, and when. ONE WAY BACK Merge a Wraith and you bank a bomb. It is not a tool: the only moment you can spend…