Match. Squash. Save the Kitchen.

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Fuzzy cartoon spiders have invaded the kitchen. Swap glossy candies to make matches, and every match next to a spider squashes it.

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The game

What is Spider Squash?

Spider Squash is a cozy match-3 puzzle game for phones. Cute fuzzy spiders have invaded the kitchen: swap candy tiles to make matches, and a match next to a spider squashes it.

The spiders are board pieces with personalities. They crawl, spin webs, light fuses, gum candies with goo and turn ghostly, so the board changes after every move. Five hundred levels in ten stages, each stage with a new twist.

levels: 500
stages, a twist in each: 10
worlds: 7
kinds of spiders: 8
power-ups to make: 4
boosters: 3

Highlights

What makes it fun

Spiders get squashed, not matched
Spiders are never matched themselves: every match group next to one lands a hit, and so does every blast. Armoured spiders take two hits; the Big Boss covers four cells and takes up to fourteen.
Power-ups and combos
A 2 x 2 square makes a Swatter that flies to the most useful target, four in a line a Rocket, an L or T a Bomb, five in a line a Color Spinner. Swap two together: Bomb plus Bomb is a 7 x 7 blast, two Spinners clear the board.
A new twist every 50 levels
Silk stuck to the board, spider nests, gift boxes, honey that drips, sugar locks, silk tunnels, ticking gumballs and conveyor belts, each taught on its own first level, then mixed in a grand finale.
Boards drawn as pictures
Levels are themed pictures and structures, not busy rectangles: a frying pan, a rocket, a gingerbread house, a cookie jar, an owl, a jack-o-lantern, crate shelves and jail cells.
Win streaks and boosters
Win in a row and the next level starts with free power-ups: a Rocket, then a Bomb, then a Color Spinner. Hammer, Spider Trap and Spider Spray boosters help on hard boards, and spare moves turn into a Squash Frenzy of rockets.
Every move has feel
Pops rise in pitch with each cascade, a squash lands with a splat and a hit-stop, and combos earn a "Sweet!", "Tasty!" or "Squashtastic!". The spiders breathe, blink and look nervous when a match is about to land.

Characters

The spiders

Eight kinds of spiders, plus a trapped friend to rescue. Each one moves or acts after every move you make.

Common
Crawls one cell each turn.
Speedy
Crawls two cells each turn.
Armoured
Takes two hits: the first cracks its spiky shell off.
Webber
Every other turn, shoots a web onto a nearby candy.
Bomber
A fuse counts down from six. Squash it first and it blasts a 3 x 3 for you.
Sticky
Never moves, but gums a neighbouring candy with goo.
Ghost
Turns ghostly every other turn; then only power-ups and boosters can hit it.
Big Boss
Covers 2 x 2 cells, takes 8 to 14 hits and calls in spiderlings.
Trapped Friend
A baby spider caught in a cage. Break it open to set them free.

Board pieces

Candies and power-ups

Seven glossy jelly candies, one per flavour (a level uses five or six of them), and the power-ups you make by matching more than three.

Heart
Strawberry jelly, red.
Star
Butter cookie, yellow.
Drop
Soda, blue.
Leaf
Matcha, green.
Flower
Grape: a purple berry cluster.
Square
Orange: a pillow square with a crease.
Donut
A pink glazed ring.
Rocket
Power-up
Four in a line: clears its row or column.
Bomb
Power-up
An L or T of five: clears a diamond of 13 cells.
Color Spinner
Power-up
Five in a line: clears every candy of one colour.

Worlds

Seven worlds

Each world has its own painted backdrop behind the board and its own stretch of the level map. After level 70 the worlds come round again: Kitchen II, Bakery II and on.

Levels 1 to 10
Kitchen
Common spiders, Rockets, Bombs, Color Spinners and crates.
Levels 11 to 20
Bakery
Speedy and Bomber spiders, cookies and cakes to collect.
Levels 21 to 30
Fridge
Ghost and Webber spiders, and webs to clear.
Levels 31 to 40
Pantry
Armoured spiders, two-layer crates and cages to break.
Levels 41 to 50
Cafe
Sticky spiders, goo and timed levels.
Levels 51 to 60
Outdoor Picnic
Everything mixed, with big rescue levels.
Levels 61 to 70
Night Kitchen
Everything at once, and the final Big Boss of the first stage.

500 levels

A new twist every 50 levels

Each stage teaches its twist on its first level, shows it off on hand-drawn levels and closes with a boss on its fiftieth.

Levels 71 to 120
Silk Floor
Woven silk stuck under the candies. Clear what sits on a cell to clean a layer.
Levels 121 to 170
Spider Nests
Silk egg sacs that hatch a spiderling every third turn until you break them.
Levels 171 to 220
Gift Boxes
Presents that burst into a random Rocket, Bomb or Swatter.
Levels 221 to 270
Honey Drip
Amber honey spreads after every move that clears none of it.
Levels 271 to 320
Sugar Locks
Candy padlocks that open only to a match of their own colour, or a blast.
Levels 321 to 370
Silk Tunnels
A column empties into another column's top, and the Spider Queen arrives to lay nests.
Levels 371 to 420
Ticking Gumballs
Candies with a countdown. Match them before they pop.
Levels 421 to 470
Conveyor Belts
Loops of belts that carry their candies one step after every move.

The Spider King and the Spider Queen side by side

Levels 471 to 500

The Grand Finale

Every twist comes back, two at a time, on hand-drawn boards like the Grand Tour and the Carnival. Level 500, The Royal Couple, puts the Spider King and the Spider Queen on the same board.

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