Paint your match-three board and get the strongest move
Unofficial fan tool — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to King.com or the Candy Crush Saga games.
Match-three puzzle games trace back to Shariki in the mid-1990s and were popularized for a mass audience by Bejeweled in 2001, but it was Candy Crush Saga, released by King in 2012, that turned the genre into one of the most-played mobile games in history and introduced hundreds of millions of casual players to its core loop: swap two adjacent pieces to line up three or more of the same kind, watch them clear, and let the board refill from above. The rules read instantly, yet the space of possible moves on a crowded board is surprisingly deep.
The genre rewards looking one move ahead rather than reacting to whatever swap looks obvious. Lining up four in a row creates a striped piece that wipes a whole line when it triggers, an L- or T-shaped match creates a wrapped piece with two chained explosions, and five in a row creates a color bomb that clears every piece of one kind on the board. Spotting these setups before making a move, rather than noticing them by accident afterward, is most of the skill ceiling in match-three games — which is why strategy guides and move-planning tools built around the genre are so widely searched for by casual players.
This page is an independent, unofficial move-planning helper for match-three boards and isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to King.com or the Candy Crush Saga games — it borrows the genre's best-known name only descriptively, the way a fan-made strategy guide would. Set the board up to match whatever a real game shows on screen, press Find Best Move, and it points out the strongest swap available along with how many pieces it would clear, so working out a good move takes a second rather than a long look at the board.