Fruit Slice

Fruit Slice condenses the swipe-to-cut arcade format into a single one-minute round. Fruit is tossed upward from below the screen on randomized arcs and hangs for a beat at the top of its flight; your job is to get a blade through it before gravity takes it back down. Apples, oranges, lemons, watermelons and pineapples each split into two tumbling halves and leave juice splatter on the wooden backdrop behind them.

Scoring is deliberately plain — one point per fruit — so the interesting decisions are all about routing the stroke. A drag that crosses three or more fruit in one motion registers a CRITICAL, pays a bonus on top of the individual points and adds two seconds to the clock, and an occasional flying clock is worth five. Misses are what cost you: let a fruit fall past the bottom edge and one of your three lives goes with it. Bombs and clocks can be ignored safely — only fruit has to be cut.

Difficulty is not fixed for the round. Every ten points climbs a tier live, mid-run: tosses fly higher and faster, more fruit share the air at once, multi-fruit bursts start appearing, and bombs enter the mix around the tenth tier. One run can climb twenty tiers above where it started, so a strong closing thirty seconds feels like a different game than the opening did. Rounds run about a minute, a little longer if you keep earning time.

How to play Fruit Slice

The whole game is one gesture: drag a blade across the screen and anything it touches is cut. Score as much as you can before the timer runs out, without dropping three fruit or hitting a bomb.

1. Press and drag anywhere on the play area — the trail behind your finger or cursor is the blade.
2. Any fruit the trail crosses is cut in half and scores a point; you never have to tap a fruit directly.
3. Shape the drag so it passes through several fruit at once — three or more in one unbroken motion triggers a CRITICAL.
4. Leave the black bombs alone. Cutting one ends the round immediately, but letting one fall past the bottom costs nothing.
5. Cut the flying clock whenever it appears to put five seconds back on the timer.
6. Watch the life pips: every fruit that falls past the bottom edge uncut takes one, and the round ends at zero.
7. At 0:00 the round ends and your score is checked against your stored best.

Tips and strategy

• Wait for the top of the arc. Fruit almost stops at the peak of its toss, and that is the easiest moment to line several up on one stroke.
• Long diagonal drags beat short jabs — a stroke that spans the screen has far more chance of picking up the third fruit that turns it into a CRITICAL.
• Treat criticals as a time strategy, not just a scoring one: two seconds each means chaining them stretches the round well past its starting minute.
• Bombs stay out of the early tiers and only appear once you are around ninety points into the run, so open aggressively while the air is still safe.
• When a bomb is mixed into a cluster, cut around the edge rather than through the middle — a dropped fruit costs one life, a clipped bomb costs the whole round.
• Keep the blade moving between tosses; the trail only lives for a fraction of a second, so a stroke drawn too early has already faded by the time the fruit arrives.

Features

• Sixty-second timed rounds with a live difficulty ladder that climbs every ten points, up to twenty tiers within a single run.
• Five procedurally drawn fruit types — apple, orange, lemon, watermelon and pineapple — that split into tumbling halves with matching juice colors.
• CRITICAL combo scoring for three or more fruit in one unbroken drag, paying bonus points plus two seconds of clock.
• Flying clock pickup worth five extra seconds on the round timer.
• Two separate failure routes: three missed fruit, or one sliced bomb for an instant end.
• Best score and highest tier reached are stored in your browser between visits.
• Runs entirely offline after the first load; finger drag and mouse drag behave identically.

Frequently asked questions

How long is one round?

The timer starts at one minute. Criticals add two seconds each and the clock pickup adds five, so a strong run stretches noticeably past sixty seconds.

What happens if I miss a fruit?

You lose one of your three lives, and the round ends when they are gone. Bombs and clocks are exempt — letting either drop past the bottom edge costs nothing.

Do I have to touch each fruit individually?

No. Cutting is based on the blade trail, so one long drag through a cluster splits everything along its path in a single motion.

When do bombs start appearing?

They stay out of the opening tiers entirely and enter once you are roughly ninety points into a run, then grow steadily more common as the tiers climb.

Is my high score saved?

Yes, in your browser's local storage, along with the highest difficulty tier you have reached. Clearing site data for this page resets both.