Candy Match 3 Crush is a match-3 game. A girl needs the player's help collecting various types of hard and soft candies across 140 levels and seven stages in a candy-covered world.
The game refers to the candies as fruit. Throughout the levels, the player deals with various types of obstacles, including fruit in odd positions and even bars that lock the items in place. In the latter scenario, the player must usually collect the jail bars instead of the candy.
The player completes their collections by repositioning two items to create one or more rows or columns of three or more matching candies. They must reach their goal, displayed near the top center of the screen, within a limited number of moves. They can track their remaining moves at the upper-left corner.
Candy Match 3 Crush offers special items and boosters. Whenever the player forms a line of more than three matching candies, they create a special item they can later use to remove multiple items from the board with one move. They can even combine special items to create more powerful ones.�
The boosters, positioned below the board, include hammer, rocket, bomb and magic wand tools. A hammer removes one item. Rockets remove an entire row or column. If the player combines rockets pointing in different directions, they remove both at the same time. A bomb clears the entire board. A magic wand reshuffles all the candies.
If the player runs out of tools, they can purchase more with coins or by viewing videos. The game also rewards them with coins and boosters when they claim daily rewards and play a luck spin wheel.