The sweet shop
Eight by eight, behind the counter of a small sweet shop.
Tap one sweet, then tap the one next to it.
This browser will not let the shop keep a ledger, so progress resets when you close the tab.
The tray is eight by eight. Swap two sweets that sit next to each other to line up three or more of the same kind. Drag one across, or tap one and then tap its neighbour — both work. Three clear; the tray fills from above; anything that lines up on the way down clears too, and the deeper that chain runs the more each clear is worth.
Every sweet has its own shape, so you can tell them apart even without colour. Early levels use four kinds. More get added as you go.
Match more than 3 and you get a special sweet. It still matches like a normal one, but it goes off with a bang when you clear it.
Swap two specials that are next to each other. They go off together, no match needed.
These aren't sweets. Getting rid of them is usually the point of the level.
Your goal is under the level name. Finish it before you run out of moves to pass.
Every flavour has its own shape as well as its own colour, so the tray reads without relying on colour at all. The larger sweets button on the play screen gives you bigger targets.
This page is the game. You do not install a client. Swap two sweets that share an edge. Three clear. Four, an L, a T, or five make specials. Some levels seat a jelly frog you feed, then hop. Fifteen levels. Five lives, refill with one tap.
Progress stays in this browser under vcrush:v1. Stars have no cash value. The longer how-to, including the frog and the special pairs, lives on How to play Vcrush. The home page is Play in Phone.
Vcrush master guide · match-3 mechanics, specials, frog physics, scoring math
Vcrush is played on an eight-by-eight tray of sixty-four confection cells. You swap adjacent sweets to form matches of three or more, clear blockers, guide falling hazelnuts off the bottom edge, and charge the jelly frog for board-clearing detonations. Beneath its vibrant candy exterior sits a deterministic cascade engine governed by strict gravity rules, combo blast matrices, and an escalating multiplier that rewards deliberate board architecture over frantic matching. This guide breaks down the exact underlying numbers, special creation geometries, hazelnut steering math, and advanced tactics needed to clear difficult levels and push past level seven hundred.
The standard Vcrush tray is an eight-by-eight grid containing exactly sixty-four pieces. The coordinate system runs from column zero through column seven from left to right, and row zero through row seven from top to bottom. New pieces spawn exclusively above row zero and fall downward along vertical columns under gravity. When empty cells appear after a match, pieces directly above them drop straight down, and fresh candies fall in from the top reservoir to fill the void.
There are exactly six distinct confection varieties in the active sweet pool. To ensure total accessibility in low contrast environments, in direct sunlight on mobile screens, and for color-blind players, each sweet carries both a unique hex color code and a distinct physical silhouette. No two pieces share the same outline:
Because color and shape are strictly coupled, you never need to squint to differentiate Cherry from Toffee or Lemon from Mint. Spotting prospective four-piece lines during rapid cascading is significantly faster when training your eye to scan for matching silhouettes rather than color hues alone.
Matching three identical sweets in a straight horizontal or vertical line simply clears those three tiles from the board, triggering a basic collapse. However, matching four or more sweets in specific geometric formations synthesizes special pieces. These special sweets hold latent destructive charges that trigger either when matched as part of another set or when detonated through special-to-special swaps.
| Special Type | Required Formation | Visual Identification | Primary Detonation Pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Striped (Row) | 4 sweets in a vertical column | Horizontal white icing bands | Clears the entire horizontal row (8 tiles) |
| Striped (Col) | 4 sweets in a horizontal row | Vertical white icing bands | Clears the entire vertical column (8 tiles) |
| Wrapped Candy | 5 sweets in a T, L, or + junction | Translucent candy wrapper wrap | Blasts a 3x3 square, drops, then blasts 3x3 again |
| Colour Bomb | 5 sweets in an unbroken line | Dark chocolate disc with rainbow sprinkles | Clears all candies of whatever sweet is swapped into it |
The direction of a striped candy's stripes is counterintuitive for many beginner players: matching four sweets horizontally produces a vertically striped sweet (which clears its column), while matching four sweets vertically produces a horizontally striped sweet (which clears its row). The stripe direction aligns with the motion vector of the swap that created the match. When triggered, a row sweet fires a high-velocity beam across all eight columns of its row, while a column sweet clears all eight rows of its column.
The wrapped candy is especially potent because of its two-phase detonation cycle. When detonated, a wrapped candy instantly obliterates the nine cells in its surrounding three-by-three bounding box. Then, as the board settles under gravity and pieces drop into the vacant crater, the wrapped candy explodes a second time at its post-fall coordinates, clearing another three-by-three area. This double blast makes wrapped sweets the premier tool for demolishing stubborn multi-layer chocolate tiles and jelly crusts.
The true mastery of Vcrush begins when two special pieces sit adjacent to each other. Swapping any two special pieces together bypasses standard matching logic: they do not need to share a color. Instead, the engine invokes a dedicated combination handler that calculates custom blast geometry across the entire tray.
The Striped plus Wrapped swap is the single most efficient combo for clearing objectives. While two Colour Bombs clear the entire board, a Colour Bomb paired with a Striped Candy generates vastly higher total points and cascade depth because each converted piece detonates individually and charges your cascade multiplier step by step.
Scores in Vcrush are calculated strictly through mathematical constants defined in config.js. Every individual candy cleared awards a base of sixty points. However, the score formula applies a compounding multiplier depending on how deep into an automatic cascade the match occurs:
| Cascade Step | Active Multiplier | Points per Tile Cleared | Special Creation Bonus | Special Detonation Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chain 1 (Initial Swap) | 1.0x | 60 pts | Row / Col: +120 pts | Row / Col: +120 pts |
| Chain 2 (First Fall) | 1.5x | 90 pts | Wrapped: +200 pts | Wrapped: +200 pts |
| Chain 3 (Second Fall) | 2.0x | 120 pts | Colour Bomb: +400 pts | Colour Bomb: +400 pts |
| Chain 4 (Third Fall) | 2.5x | 150 pts | — | — |
| Chain 5 (Fourth Fall) | 3.0x | 180 pts | — | — |
| Chain 6 (Fifth Fall) | 3.5x | 210 pts | — | — |
| Chain 7+ (Maximum Cap) | 4.0x | 240 pts | Leftover Move: +300 pts | — |
The multiplier starts at 1.0 on the user's initial swap and increases by 0.5 for every consecutive collapse triggered by falling pieces, up to a hard ceiling of 4.0x. Creating a special sweet awards an immediate flat bonus (+120 for Striped, +200 for Wrapped, +400 for Colour Bomb), and detonating that piece awards the same bonus again, multiplied by the active cascade step.
When the level's final objective is completed, the game transitions into the Sugar Crush endgame celebration. Each leftover move remaining on your turn counter is cashed in for exactly three hundred bonus points. Furthermore, every unexploded special piece left sitting on the tray detonates automatically in sequence, triggering high-multiplier cascades that can add tens of thousands of points to your final score.
Hazelnuts are ingredient pieces that appear on ingredient delivery levels. Unlike standard confections, hazelnuts have rigid physical constraints written into their entity definition:
Because hazelnuts cannot be matched directly, steering them across columns requires understanding diagonal gravity shift. When an obstacle or chocolate block sits at the bottom of column three, leaving a hazelnut stuck above it, matching pieces in column two or column four causes candies above to settle at slight diagonal angles if irregular tray layouts exist. More reliably, vertical column striped candies in the hazelnut's column clear the path straight to the floor in a single turn.
The jelly frog is one of the most powerful tactical assets in Vcrush. When present on the board, the frog sits inside a single cell as an active piece. He is aligned with one specific confection flavor (such as Blue Razz or Cherry) indicated by his body color.
The frog feeds whenever sweets of his own flavor are matched in cells immediately adjacent to him (orthogonally or diagonally). As he eats, his visual meter fills. Once he has consumed twelve candies, he enters the Ready state and begins pulsing on the board.
When the frog is Ready, you can pick him up and place him onto any cell across the entire board. Hopping the frog consumes exactly zero moves from your turn counter: the moves were already invested during the feeding phase, so Vcrush does not charge you twice for the same payoff. When the frog touches down, he creates an instantaneous three-by-three shockwave that clears all nine pieces and shatters underlying jelly.
Crucial Frog Decision: If you leave the frog in place and continue feeding him six additional sweets after he reaches Ready status, his body glows with supercharged energy. When a supercharged frog hops, his landing explosion expands from a three-by-three box into a massive five-by-five perimeter, clearing up to twenty-five cells in a single zero-turn action.
Surviving into the deep hundreds of Vcrush levels requires moving past casual matches and reading board state like a chess player. High-tier players apply three foundational principles on every turn:
All Vcrush progress, unlocked levels, star ratings, and high scores are saved locally inside your browser's persistent localStorage under the canonical key vcrush:v1 (schema version 3). Your progress persists automatically across browser tabs and device reboots without requiring any user account or registration.
Each unused move remaining on your turn counter awards exactly three hundred bonus points during the Sugar Crush celebration. In addition, every unexploded special piece on the board detonates automatically, adding tile clear points multiplied by the escalating cascade multiplier.
No. Hopping the ready jelly frog onto a target cell consumes zero moves from your counter. The turns were already invested when matching candies adjacent to the frog to feed him, so deploying him is a free action.
The cascade multiplier starts at 1.0x on your initial swap, increases by 0.5x on every subsequent automatic fall, and caps at a maximum multiplier of 4.0x at chain seven and above. Every tile cleared at chain seven awards 240 points instead of the base 60 points.
Swapping two Colour Bombs clears all sixty-four pieces on the board simultaneously. It removes an entire layer from every jelly tile, wipes all standard candies, and drops all active hazelnuts straight to the bottom row.
The stripe direction corresponds to the axis perpendicular to your match alignment. Matching four sweets in a horizontal row creates a vertically striped sweet that clears its entire column when triggered.
No. Hazelnuts possess no color attribute and cannot be matched in sets of three. They can only be swapped with an adjacent sweet if that swap directly causes that sweet to complete a valid match.
Ready to put these cascade physics and combo blast matrices to the test? Jump straight into the tray and start crushing.
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