Fruit Slice
In Fruit Slice you swipe through thrown geometric shapes. Everything is a plain polygon — no fruit at all. Free, no install, no sign-up.
In Fruit Slice, shapes are thrown up from the bottom of the screen. Swipe through them to score, and avoid the red crosses. Missing three throws ends the run.
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Works offline after the first visit. No install, no sign-up.
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How to play Fruit Slice
Everything thrown is a plain shape
Circles, squares, triangles and hexagons only. There is no fruit, no food and no cut-in-half artwork anywhere in this game — the targets are geometry, drawn by code. This is deliberate rather than an oversight: the well-known games in this genre are protected in both name and imagery, so the subject matter here is bypassed rather than imitated with different words.
Swipe through to score
Drag across a shape and it is cut. One swipe can catch several shapes at once if they are lined up, and each one counts separately.
The red cross is a hazard
A red cross is thrown in among the shapes and ends the run instantly if you swipe it. It is drawn as a cross rather than a shape with a coloured centre, so the two are told apart by form and not only by colour.
Three misses ends the run
A shape that falls back off the bottom counts as a miss. Three misses end the run. Swiping and catching shapes does not use up misses.
Throws speed up with your score
New shapes are thrown more often as your score rises, up to a fixed minimum interval. The arcs themselves are always random, so no two waves are identical.
Score counts shapes cut
Your result is the number of shapes you sliced, not points from a hidden multiplier. Nothing is weighted.
Fruit Slice Tips and Strategy
One swipe, several shapes
Each wave throws one to three shapes at the same moment, all following near-identical arcs, so they line up as they rise. A single straight swipe through that group scores every one of them. Cutting them one at a time as they appear wastes both the wave and the hand movement you were going to make anyway.
Work the bottom of the arc
A shape that falls back off the bottom is the only thing that costs you the run, so the shape lowest on the screen is the urgent one. Cutting part of a wave still leaves the rest to fall, and three misses ends the run outright. That makes a half-cut wave the most dangerous outcome rather than a safe one.
The hazard is one shape in six
About one shape in six is a red cross, and it arrives among the rest of the wave with no warning. Swiping one ends the run on the spot, even after you have already cut two shapes in the same stroke. So look at the shapes as a wave leaves the bottom rather than reacting to the first one.
Fruit Slice — Frequently Asked Questions
Are these fruit?
No. Every target is a geometric shape drawn by code — circle, square, triangle or hexagon. There is no fruit imagery anywhere in this game.
How do I tell the hazard apart if I cannot see colour?
The hazard is a red cross, which is a different form from every target shape, not just a different colour.
What ends the run?
Swiping a red cross, or missing three shapes in total. Cutting shapes never uses up a miss.
Does it need installing or an account?
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer and works offline after the first visit.