Match-3 puzzle games are hot for all ages—simple and easy to learn and play. They are good for fun and entertainment, but sometimes can be addictive when players are challenging themselves for higher scores or better results.
Computer programs make these games interesting by introducing variety: you can match 3 jewels, 3 coins, 3 colors or any other three objects in a row, horizontally or vertically, by swapping or firing them.
Match-3 games were made popular with a few commercial products launched way back when. The good news is that now there are many free programs available for download or playing online. They are equally good in design and quality as their commercial forebears.
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Adventure Match is an enchanting gift matching game. Watch the packets twirl. Switch to match three or more gifts to earn magic wands or diamond bonuses. Advance to the next level and experience another whirl.
The program comes with dazzling graphics and joyful music, complete with four engaging game modes providing many levels of challenges, including 40 unique Adventure Quest levels and 100 Fable Puzzle levels.
It delights for hours. Choose to save the game if you want to come back and carry on with the next adventure.
Ancient Gems, another great match-3 game program for download and play.
Drag and hold blocks with identical colors adjacent to each other to match tiles and collect gems while making your way up the legendary Taishan Mountain. It's not an easy journey to go through Chinese mythology, with 100 Match-3 levels to take on before you discover the Elixir of Life! Along the journey, some ancient Chinese music accompanies you.
Three modes including Quest, Puzzle and Add-ons can be selected for gameplay, either full screen or windowed.
Experience Ocean Quest, an exciting game filled with actions and puzzles. Shoot colored balls to make and match groups of three or more from a unique, ecologically correct submarine, deployed to clean up pollution and toxic sea waste with its purifying balls.
All the legendary seven seas are there for you to explore. But before travelling to the next ocean, you'll have to clean up the current one.
This program hones your speed and precision. Don't let colored balls reach the sea gate... Otherwise, you're history. Several options are available for setting music and sound, adjusting screen resolution, playing full screen or windowed.
Match-3 Puzzle for Linux
Shoot a bubble up to match and clear three or more same color bubbles from the playing field in this popular puzzle game, Frozen Bubble, designed with colorful 3D rendered penguin animations and 15 stereo sound effects.
Frozen Bubble comes with editable 100 levels for 1-player game, or hours and hours of 2-player game. You can also choose to have multi-player game over the local area network or Internet.
Play this game with the left or right key to aim your shot and up key to fire. Hone your skills in speed and accuracy before the bubbles get frozen!
Online Match-3 Puzzle
Like to play Match-3 puzzle games without having to install anything on you computer? Experience these browser based online games free of charge.
Cradle of Rome, a thrilling path to puzzle glory. Build the heart of the Ancient Roman Empire by playing and conquering more than 100 addictive and intuitively designed levels. At each level, collect and unlock bonuses and many surprise features.
Jewel Quest, a gem matching adventure game. Form matches of 3 in a row by swapping 2 adjacent relics and turn all spaces gold to win. Expect to hear some animal sounds from the forest.
Already familiar with Diamond Mine or Bejeweled? Online Bejeweled 2 gives you more exciting experience with 3 choices: Select 'Classic' for the original untimed game, 'Action' to beat the clock or 'Puzzle' to practise clearing all the gems.
Zuma, a game of thrilling action puzzles for honing speed and precision. Fire balls from the frog's mouth to make groups of three or more, but don't let the rest spin away into the abyss. Fill the Zuma meter, clear out all balls and move on to the next level. More than 20 temples to explore!
Honey Trouble, designed differently from Zuma, this game is to take the honey from the bad bees. Make combination of 3 of more balls to get the honey pot, and have fun guiding the bear in this honey game.
Bubblez Puzzle is a fun and challenging flash puzzle game with simple rules. Aim and fire the colored balls and match 3 or more to make them disappear.
Fitz, swap figures, match 3 or more of the same shape to burst them, with challenging levels and scores.
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Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Colorful 3D rendered penguin animations, 15 stereo sound effects, editable 100 levels for 1-player game, or hours and hours of 2-player game, supports multi-player over the local area network or Internet.
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I have been playing a game similar to bejeweled called beshaped, instead of matching columns or rows of jewels you have to match the shapes in that shape. Here is a link to the site http://www.pejosoftware.com/Beshaped.htm
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amazing game, have played by ACME from aureso.pl
Best Match-3 Puzzle for Mac OS X:
JewelToy is a simple game played against the clock
http://www.aegidian.org/jeweltoy/index.html
(games) Adventure Match - is a dead link
Thanks. I've updated it to the new link which should work now.
these games are fun and addictive, and im thrilled to see you mentioned some linux versions.
Sasha
when i try to play ocean quest theres message "incorrect video settings.try to reinstall the game." can anybody help me...!!!
The games from Free Games Pick force you to install their toolbar [sometimes] and also open your browser when you close the games.
They suck!
I have been playing a game similar to bejeweled called beshaped, instead of matching columns or rows of jewels you have to match the shapes in that shape. Here is a link to the site http://www.pejosoftware.com/Beshaped.htm
The link to the freeware PC version appears broken.
i just tried the link and it worked. site must have been unavailable when you tried.
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