Apples & Lemons

Why We Picked Apples & Lemons

Apples & Lemons has no timer and no lives, so the only pressure is the space you have already spent. Thin on paper, and considerably less thin once the board fills. There is no clock in most of these games, so the pressure is spatial: a corner you cannot use, a piece that will not fit. We kept it because the board stays readable at every size, which is rarer than it sounds. By the numbers: 841 plays, 4.1 out of 5 from 23 ratings, and 374 of 500 on the arcade shelf.

How to Play

The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:

• If nothing responds in the first few seconds, reload the page once — the embed occasionally arrives before its scripts.
• The board arrives solvable and leaves solved, and the middle part is your own planning.
• Read the whole board before the first move; the shape of the space is the puzzle.

Editor’s Note

Sound off is fine; nothing here depends on audio cues. Nothing on this shelf requires an account: the board appears, you play it, and the result stays on the page.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.