Nest Cascade

Nest Cascade - a tile clearing puzzle played on a board of eight columns and ten rows filled with farm items: eggs, blue feathers, corn cobs, straw nests and small red barns. A tap on any group of three or more identical items that touch each other side by side removes the whole group at once, the items above drop into the freed cells, and a column left with nothing in it closes up while the remaining columns shift to the left. Points are counted from the size of the cleared group and grow faster than the group itself, so one group of eight items gives far more than two groups of four, which turns the board into a search for the largest connected shapes. Three helpers sit under the board and each one carries a limited count on its badge: the lamp marks a group that can still be taken, the arrows mix the items that are left into a new arrangement, and the star removes any single item to open a path for a larger clear. The round runs without refills, so the board only gets thinner, and it ends when no group of three remains and no mixing of the leftovers can produce one. The pause panel freezes the board and offers a return to the current round, a fresh start and a way back to the menu. The closing panel of a round shows the points of that round next to the best result kept on the device. Settings hold three difficulty steps that change how many item types appear on the board and how many helpers are given at the start, a switch for the blast and shake effects, the best result with a way to clear it, and a full reset of saved progress. Six progress marks are collected across rounds for finishing a first round, for clearing groups of six and of ten items, for reaching two point totals and for leaving almost nothing on the board, and they are kept from one launch to the next together with the best result and the chosen settings.