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, hazards and written lore. Endless Carnival: sixty two seconds on the clock, and every merge buys you more. The rounds escalate until they beat you. Daily Trick: one board generated from the date, identical for every player, with two or three modifiers. Clear it to keep your streak alive. Puzzle Vault: twenty four fixed boards with exact move budgets and no room to waste a tap. HAZARDS Wax seals hold their place while everything around them falls, splitting a column in two. Cages lock good fruit away until two merges rattle them open. The interval clock ignores your move count entirely and counts only seconds. YOUR PLAYBILL Shoot a portrait with the camera or pick one from your library, and it sits behind a harlequin mask on your Playbill card. Eighteen masks, fourteen board cloths and six confetti styles, all bought with gilders you earn by playing. You can even hang your own photograph behind the boards. NO NONSENSE No real money anywhere in the game. No advertising. No accounts. No tracking. No network calls at all. Everything you do is stored on your own device, and the whole game works on a plane. Forty seven awards to chase, a full house ledger of every number the theatre keeps on you, five public domain music tracks with a mute toggle that sticks, haptics you can switch off, and layouts built for iPhone and iPad in both portrait and landscape.