Red Harlequin Fruit

Twelve acts. One hundred and forty four sets. A ladder that runs from a pair of cherries to the Harlequin's crown. Red Harlequin Fruit is a tap-to-merge puzzle set in a crimson and gold theatre. Any three touching fruit of the same rung collapse into the tile you tap, one rung higher. Where you tap decides where the new fruit lands, and that single choice is the whole game. THE LADDER Cherry, lemon, blood orange, velvet plum, grape cluster, ringmaster melon, brass star, curtain bell, lucky horseshoe, harlequin crown. Ten rungs, each worth roughly double the one below it and about three times the work. THE OVATION METER Every merge warms the crowd, and the multiplier climbs to five. Six quick merges beat twelve careful ones. Let the meter cool and everything is worth face value again. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY Troupe Tour: 144 hand-titled sets across twelve acts, each act with its own boards,…