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Color Tile Match Unblocked

Swap, match and score fast enough that the timer bar never runs dry.

Color Tile Match gameplay
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What is Color Tile Match?

Color Tile Match is a timed match-three puzzle on an 8x8 board of six tile colors. You swap two neighboring tiles to make a row or column of three or more of the same color, which clears and scores points. The goal is a high score before the shrinking timer bar empties or the board runs out of moves.

Category
Puzzle Games
Players
1 player
Plays on
Phone, tablet & desktop
Input
Mouse, Touch
Checked

Color Tile Match is a match-three puzzle with a heartbeat. Six colors of rounded tiles fill an 8x8 board, you swap neighbors to make lines, and the whole time a timer bar is draining at the top of the screen. Every match pushes the bar back up, so the game becomes a balance between thinking and simply moving. Alexander Bazhanov built it on top of an open canvas tutorial by Rembound and added boosters, a live color count and a saved best score. It runs unblocked and was designed phone-first.

How a Round Plays Out

Select a tile, then one of the four tiles touching its sides. If the swap lines up three or more of the same color across or down, those tiles disappear. Tiles above fall into the gap and new ones drop in from the top, sometimes creating extra matches on their own. A swap that makes nothing simply slides back.

Scoring is the square of the line length:

  • 3 tiles = 9 points
  • 4 tiles = 16 points
  • 5 tiles = 25 points

You start with two minutes on the bar. It drains every second, and slightly faster as your score climbs. Roughly a third of every score gain is added back as time, but the bar never fills beyond full. Sit idle for about 15 seconds and the game hints at a move.

Boosters arrive with points: a palette (wild tile) every 250, a bomb every 500 and a brush every 1,000. A small fill bar inside each button shows the progress toward the next one.

Color Tile Match controls

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Swap a pair of tiles Click a tile, then click a neighbor, or drag a tile onto a neighborTap a tile, then tap a neighbor, or slide a tile onto a neighbor
Show a move you could make Click the magnifier buttonTap the magnifier button
Fire a booster at the chosen tile Select a tile, then click the brush, bomb or palette buttonSelect a tile, then tap the brush, bomb or palette button
Restart with a new board Click the circular arrow buttonTap the circular arrow button
Open the rules (the clock pauses) Click "FAQ"Tap "FAQ"

Habits of a High Scorer

The best players think less about the single swap and more about what happens after it.

Low matches cause cascades. Clearing tiles near the bottom makes everything above shift down, and those falling tiles often line up on their own. Free matches mean free time.

Look for four and five before three. The scoring curve makes long lines worth far more. Spend a second scanning for them before taking the obvious three.

Use the color strip. The bar of numbers under the board shows how many tiles of each color exist. The brush is most valuable on whichever color has the highest count.

Bomb a dead zone. When a corner of the board has no moves, a bomb can break it open and reshuffle the tiles above.

Place wild tiles between near-lines. A palette tile in the right spot can complete two lines at once.

Keep an eye on the magnifier badge. It shows how many legal moves exist. When it drops to one or two, use a booster before the board locks up.

Who It Is For

Color Tile Match fits short sessions on a phone, held upright, where a round lasts as long as you keep scoring. If you prefer slower color puzzles without a clock, try Color Pour Sort, or switch to Same Game Blocks for group-clearing with no timer at all.

Color Tile Match: questions players ask

How do I get a high score in Color Tile Match?

Go for long lines. Points equal the line length squared, so a five-tile line earns 25 against 9 for three. Bigger scores also refill more of the timer, which gives you longer to hunt for the next big match.

What do the brush, bomb and palette do?

The bomb clears the selected tile and the tiles around it. The brush removes tiles of one color. The palette turns a tile into a wild piece that matches any color. You earn them at 1,000, 500 and 250 points respectively.

When does the game end?

Either when the timer bar is empty or when no swap anywhere on the board can make a match. The magnifier badge counts available moves, so watch it for an early warning.

Does Color Tile Match keep my best score?

Yes. Your top result is stored in your browser, so it is still there next time you open the game on the same device.

Credits and license

Color Tile Match was created by Alexander Bazhanov and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.

  • Source code: github.com/bazhanius (original project)
  • Code license: MIT
  • Art & audio: MIT (tiles drawn on canvas, inline SVG icons from Material Symbols under Apache-2.0, no audio)
  • Our changes: Renamed for FreezeNova from "Match 3 game". We removed favicon and manifest links pointing outside the game folder and a feedback link in the in-game help. The game logic is unchanged.

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